Parallel Lives

English-language translations of
Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Parallel Lives)
by Plutarch

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Although written in Greek as the Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Bíoi Parállēloi, "Parallel Lives"), the work was formerly more commonly referenced by its Latin translation Vitae (fully Vitae Parallelae). It is also known as The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans or Vitae Illustrium Virorum.

English-language translations of Βίοι Παράλληλοι include:

Full translations edit

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes (1579), translated by Thomas North (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) or (external scan)
Plutarch's Lives (1683) "by several hands", edited by John Dryden (External copy) & (external scan)
Plutarch's Lives (1822, reprinted 1844 & 1873), translated by John & William Langhorne (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
Plutarch's Lives (1844, rev. 1894), translated by George Long & Aubrey Stewart (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
Plutarch's Lives (1859, reprinted 1906), a revision of Dryden's translation by A.H. Clough (transcription project)
Lives (1914 & seq.), translated by Bernadotte Perrin (external scan)

Abridgments edit

The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch (1883), an abridgment of the Lives by John S. White (external scan)
The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks & Tales of the Romans (1910), an abridgment of the Lives by F.J. Gould