North's Plutarch: The Translation By Sir Thomas North of Plutarch's Lives

by Plutarch

For the first time on Kindle, this is the critically important translation of "Plutarch's Lives" by Sir Thomas North, presented complete and unabridged in six volumes, with a thorough digital index for Kindle. This is the translation of Plutarch from which William Shakespeare drew the main sources for his Roman plays. It has been said that Sir Thomas North's prose is the prose of Shakespeare.Wikipedia states of Plutarch's "Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD."All six volumes of "North's Plutarch" have been combined into this single edition, and the text is a replica of the 1579 first edition. Translated out of Greek into French by James Amyot, and out of French into English by Thomas North.Here you will find 2600 pages of text, with a thorough (over 50 page) introduction by George Wyndham, and a beautiful dedicatory to Queen Elizabeth by North preceding the main text. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, "[I]t is almost impossible to overestimate the influence of North's vigorous English on contemporary writers, and some critics have called him the first master of English prose."The contents of this massive work are as follows, and once downloaded and purchased, can also be found in the digital index to this --Volume One--The Life of TheseusThe Life of RomulusThe Comparison of Theseus With RomulusThe Life of LycurgusThe Life of Numa PompiliusThe Comparison of Lycurgus With NumaThe Life of SolonThe Life of PublicolaThe Comparison of Solon With PublicolaThe Life of ThemistoclesThe Life of Furius Camillus--Volume Two--The Life of PericlesThe Life of Fabius MaximusThe Comparison of Pericles With Fabius MaximusThe Life of AlcibiadesThe Life of CoriolanusThe Comparison of Alcibiades With CoriolanusThe Life of Paulus AemilusThe Life of TimoleonThe Comparison of Paulus Aemilus With TimoleonThe Life of PelopidasThe Life of MarcellusThe Comparison of Pelopidas With MarcellusThe Life of Aristides--Volume Three--The Life of Marcus CatoThe Comparison of Aristides With marcus CatoThe Life of PhilopoemenThe Life of FlaminiusThe Comparison of Philopoemen With FlaminiusThe Life of PyrrusThe Life of Caius MariusThe Life of LysanderThe Life of SyllaThe Comparison of Lysander With SyllaThe Life of CimonThe Life of LucullusThe Comparison of Cimon With Lucullus--Volume Four--The Life of NiciasThe Life of Marcus CrassusThe Comparison of Crassus With NiciasThe Life of SertoriusThe Life of EumenesThe Comparison of Eumenes With SertoriusThe Life of AgesilausThe Life of PompeyThe Comparison of Pompey With AgesilausThe Life of Alexander the Great--Volume Five--The Life of Julius CaesarThe Life of PhocionThe Life of Cato UticanAgis and CleomenesTiberius and Caius GracchiThe Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchi With Agis and CleomenesThe Life of DemosthenesThe Life of Marcus Tullius CiceroThe Comparison of Cicero and DemosthenesThe Life of Demetrius--Volume Six--The Life of Marcus AntoniusThe Comparison of Demetrius With AntoniusThe Life of ArtaxerxesThe Life of DionThe Life of Marcus BrutusThe Comparison of Dion With BrutusThe Life of AratusThe Life of GalbaThe Life of OrthoThe Life of AnnibalThe Life of Scipio AfricanThe Comparison of Annibal With P. Scipio African

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1942

About the author

Plutarch (later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus; AD 46–AD 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works were written in Greek, but intended for both Greek and Roman readers.