Our Young Folks' Plutarch
Rosalie Kaufman
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface she writes, “The lives which we here present in a condensed simple form are prepared from those of Plutarch. Plutarch says, ‘It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives.’ This is why anecdotes, short sayings or a word or two of repartee are frequently recorded. For they furnish a better insight into the thoughts and character of a man than his most glorious exploit, famous siege, or bloody battle. So it is lives, and not a history, that we offer; this must be borne in mind when some of the most important events the world has ever known receive insufficient mention.”
(18 hr 40 min)
Chapters
Preface | 2:54 | Read by April Walters |
Theseus | 25:01 | Read by Mary Schneider |
Lycurgus | 30:25 | Read by MaryAnn |
Romulus | 24:00 | Read by Owen Cook |
Numa Pompilius | 23:33 | Read by Owen Cook |
Solon | 30:06 | Read by Jim Locke |
Publicola | 29:28 | Read by Jim Locke |
Caius Marcius Coriolanus | 28:05 | Read by Jim Locke |
Themistocles | 28:07 | Read by JackMon |
Aristides | 20:48 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Cimon | 18:02 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Pericles | 17:47 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Nicias | 16:22 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Alcibiades | 21:14 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Lysander | 15:07 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Camillus | 30:31 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Artaxerxes | 13:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Agesilaus | 20:28 | Read by Jim Locke |
Dion | 24:50 | Read by Jim Locke |
Phocion | 22:03 | Read by Jim Locke |
Pelopidas | 23:52 | Read by Jim Locke |
Timoleon | 21:13 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Demosthenes | 17:56 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Alexander | 52:10 | Read by Dave Gillespie |
Eumenes | 15:18 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Demetrius | 19:46 | Read by Jim Locke |
Pyrrhus | 21:29 | Read by Kalynda |
Aratus | 19:40 | Read by ToddHW |
Agis | 16:57 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Cleomenes | 16:43 | Read by Jim Locke |
Fabius | 25:50 | Read by rachelrw |
Marcellus | 25:13 | Read by Owen Cook |
Philopoemen | 16:07 | Read by Jim Locke |
Flamininus | 16:37 | Read by Owen Cook |
Marcus Cato | 21:04 | Read by Kalynda |
Aemilius Paulus | 29:09 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Tiberius Gracchus | 17:08 | Read by Kathrine Engan |
Caius Gracchus | 15:40 | Read by Jim Locke |
Caius Marius | 37:14 | Read by Jim Locke |
Sylla | 18:31 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Crassus | 23:55 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Lucullus | 23:40 | Read by Owen Cook |
Pompey | 32:26 | Read by Jim Locke |
Cicero | 17:38 | Read by Jim Locke |
Caesar | 28:26 | Read by Jim Locke |
Cato The Younger | 27:38 | Read by Jim Locke |
Marcus Brutus | 22:34 | Read by Owen Cook |
Antony | 15:05 | Read by Catherine Burke-Mueller |
Sertorius | 17:20 | Read by Owen Cook |
Galba | 11:53 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Otho | 9:48 | Read by Louise Meany |
Reviews
nice
Sam
It’s a great book I love the story’s. I like how u can learn so much about history from these books.
amazing
Caris Maloney
amazing that all I can say