North's Plutarch: The Translation By Sir Thomas North of Plutarch's Lives - The Lives of the Nobel Grecians and Romans By Plutarch of Chaeronea

by Plutarch, George Wyndham (Introduction), Thomas North (Translator)

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 Theseus
The Life of Romulus
The Comparison of Theseus With Romulus
The Life of Lycurgus
The Life of Numa Pompilius
The Comparison of Lycurgus With Numa
The Life of Solon
The Life of Publicola
The Comparison of Solon With Publicola
The Life of Themistocles
The Life of Furius Camillus
--Volume Two--
The Life of Pericles
The Life of Fabius Maximus
The Comparison of Pericles With Fabius Maximus
The Life of Alcibiades
The Life of Coriolanus
The Comparison of Alcibiades With Coriolanus
The Life of Paulus Aemilus
The Life of Timoleon
The Comparison of Paulus Aemilus With Timoleon
The Life of Pelopidas
The Life of Marcellus
The Comparison of Pelopidas With Marcellus
The Life of Aristides
--Volume Three--
The Life of Marcus Cato
The Comparison of Aristides With marcus Cato
The Life of Philopoemen
The Life of Flaminius
The Comparison of Philopoemen With Flaminius
The Life of Pyrrus
The Life of Caius Marius
The Life of Lysander
The Life of Sylla
The Comparison of Lysander With Sylla
The Life of Cimon
The Life of Lucullus
The Comparison of Cimon With Lucullus
--Volume Four--
The Life of Nicias
The Life of Marcus Crassus
The Comparison of Crassus With Nicias
The Life of Sertorius
The Life of Eumenes
The Comparison of Eumenes With Sertorius
The Life of Agesilaus
The Life of Pompey
The Comparison of Pompey With Agesilaus
The Life of Alexander the Great
--Volume Five--
The Life of Julius Caesar
The Life of Phocion
The Life of Cato Utican
Agis and Cleomenes
Tiberius and Caius Gracchi
The Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchi With Agis and Cleomenes
The Life of Demosthenes
The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Comparison of Cicero and Demosthenes
The Life of Demetrius
--Volume Six--
The Life of Marcus Antonius&l

Kindle Edition

Published July 15, 2022

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.