Plutarch: Greek Lives (Abridged)

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Introduction (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


1. Introduction - 3:42
2. Plutarch's desire to make his subject's 'habit of mind understood' - 4:11


Themistocles (527-460 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


3. Themistocles (527-460 BC) - 3:18
4. It is said that Themistocles - 2:46
5. He went beyound all men in the passion for distinction - 2:16
6. Having taken upon himself the command of the Athenian forces - 3:09
7. Now, though Xerxes had already passed through Doris - 2:56
8. Eurybiades, by the reason of the greatness of Sparta - 2:45
9. Themistocles, knowing the generosity of Aristides - 3:11


Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC) (more info)
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Plutarch,
Steve Hodson, reader


10. Lycurgus (6th or 7th Century BC) - 3:15
11. Soon after, an overture was made to him by the queen, - 3:31
12. From Crete he sailed to Asia - 2:45
13. Amongst the many changes and alterations which Lycurgus made - 2:46
14. After the creation of the thirty senators - 2:55
15. So there was now no more means of purchasing foreign goods - 2:43
16. This last ordinance in particular exasperated the wealthier men. - 3:39
17. Lycurgus would never reduce his laws into writing - 3:23
18. These public processions of the maidens - 2:45
19. Lycurgus allowed a man who was advanced in years and had a young wife - 2:31
20. After they were twelve years old - 3:21
21. Their lovers and favourers, too, had a share in the young boy's honour or disgrace - 2:34
22. Nor was their instruction in music and verse - 2:32
23. To return to the Lacedaemonians - 2:19
24. The senate, as I said before, consisted of those who were Lycurgus's chief aiders - 4:27
25. When he perceived that his more important institutions had taken root in the minds of his countrymen - 4:17

Alcibiades (450-404 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


1. Alcibiades (450-404 BC) - 3:18
2. Unawares to himself - 2:43
3. Whilst he was very young - 2:43
4. He had great advantages for entering public life - 2:56


Themistocles (527-460 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


5. After this eas-fight, Xerxes, enraged at his ill-fortune - 3:12
6. He was, indeed, by nature, a great lover of honour - 4:23
7. When Pausanias went about this treasonable design - 2:34
8. Thucydides says, that, passing over land to the Aegaean Sea - 2:34
9. When he was introduced to the king - 2:43
10. Themistocles replied, that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, - 3:17
11. But when Egypt revolted, being assisted by the Athenians, - 2:36


Pericles (495-429 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


12. Pericles (495-429 BC) - 3:13
13. For this man, Pericles entertained an extraordinary esteem - 3:19
14. He immediately entered - 2:40
15. Finding himself come sort of his competitor, Cimon - 2:58
16. Cimon, while he was admiral - 2:53
17. Pericles on the other hand - 2:51
18. Phidias had the oversight of all the works - 2:52
19. At length, coming to a final contest with Thucydides - 3:06
20. Of all his expeditions - 2:18
21. For, in the first place, the Euboeans revolted - 3:04
22. Pericles, however, was particularly charged with having proposed to the assembly - 3:52
23. After this was over, the Peloponnesian war beginning - 3:32
24. The people receiving and admitting these accusations and complaints - 3:20
25. In the first place, the pestilential disease - 4:23

Alcibiades (450-404 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


1. Alcibiades was not less disturbed at the distinctions - 2:55
2. When they were met - 2:58
3. After this battle at Mantinea - 2:12
4. The truth is, his liberalities, his public shows - 3:04
5. Together with Alcibiades - 3:17
6. Alcibiades perceived the malice of this postponement - 3:17
7. The information against him was conceived in this form - 2:50
8. At Sparta, he was devoted to athletic exercises - 2:35
9. Thus Alcibiades, quitting the interests of the Spartans - 3:28
10. Alcibiades at once dispatched messengers to Samos - 2:33
11. The people in the city were terrified into submission - 3:52
12. But about thirty days after, Alcibiades escaped from his keeprs - 3:17
13. Alcibiades, as soon as he saw the torch lifted upin the air - 2:55
14. And now Alcibiades began to desire to see his native country again - 2:16
15. But notwithstanding the affairs of Alcibiades went so prosperously - 2:26
16. How far his own inclinations led him to usurp sovereign power - 3:21
17. As soon as Alcibiades heard of this - 3:03
18. Yet in this sad state of affairs - 3:17


Lysander (439-395 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


19. Lysander (439-395 BC) - 3:34
20. Understanding that Cyrus, the king's son - 3:47
21. But to those who loved honest and noble behaviour - 3:04
22. But on the fifth day - 4:04
23. Lysander with his fleet passed to Asia - 2:53
24. Lysander, after this, sails out to Thrace - 2:29
25. This ambitious temper was indeed only burdensome to the highest personages - 2:27
26. And having hardly and with difficulty obtained leave - 1:58

Alexander (356-323 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


1. Alexander (356-323 BC) - 2:40
2. The statues that gave the best representation of Alexander's person - 3:10
3. The care of his education, as it might be presumed - 2:51
4. After this, considering him to be of a temper easy to be led to his duty by reason - 3:28
5. But the disorders of his family - 3:39
6. When he came to Thebes - 3:09
7. Then he went to Delphi - 2:48
8. In the meantime Darius's captains having collected large roces - 3:26
9. This battle presently made a great change of affairs to Alexander's advantage - 2:37
10. Darius was by this time upon his march from Susa - 2:39
11. There was at this time in Darius's army a Macedonian refugee - 3:02
12. But as he was going to supper - 3:51
13. Alexander, that he might refresh his army - 3:46
14. This was a long and painful, and, in two respects, a dangerous journey - 3:13
15. Darius wrote him a letter - 3:40
16. But to return to Alexander - 3:18
17. His sword, which was the weapon he used most in fight - 3:52
18. From hence he marched through the province of Babylon - 3:56
19. What she said was received with such universal liking and murmurs of applause - 2:54
20. But when he perceived his favourites grow so luxurious - 3:01
21. He now, as we said, set forth to seek Darius - 3:42


Lysander (439-395 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


22. When King Agis died - 1:53
23. Immediately, therefore, Lysander spurred him on to make an expedition into Asia - 2:07
24. Upon this he was sent ambassador to the Hellespont - 2:25
25. And being now grown violent in his temper - 2:32

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


1. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) - 3:39
2. As soon, therefore, as he was grown up to man's estate - 3:55
3. Whence then, may some say - 2:18
4. However, finding it a hard matter - 2:42
5. It was evident - 3:20
6. But there was, it should seem - 3:03


Alexander (356-323 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


7. And now with the flower of his army he marched into Hyrcania - 2:49
8. Apprehending the Macedonians would be weary of pursuing the war - 2:24
9. Noticing, also, that among his chief friends and favourites - 2:58
10. But he, for what reason is uncertain - 2:44
11. The king had a present of Grecian fruit brought him - 2:36
12. 'We are sufficiently punished already' - 1:54
13. Upon this, at last, Alexander, snatching a spear from one of the soldiers - 2:42
14. Alexander now intent upon his expedition into India - 2:14
15. Nor did they judge amiss - 3:07
16. This discourse pleased Alexander - 3:50
17. Almost all the historians agree - 3:18
18. Alexander was now eager to see the ocean - 3:58
19. His voyage down the rivers took up seven months' time - 1:55
20. At Gedrosia, his admiral, Nearchus - 2:38
21. The thirty thousand boys whom he left behind him to be taught - 3:39
22. As he was upon his way to Babylon - 3:23
23. But the journals give the following record - 2:56

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) (more info)
Plutarch,
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader


1. Demosthenes had secret intelligence of the death of Philip - 3:31
2. It was not long after that Harpalus fled from Alexander - 2:13
3. Demosthenes resisted the inquisition - 3:11
4. Yet it was no long time that he enjoyed his country after his return - 4:36


Pyrrhus (329-272 BC) (more info)
Nicholas Farrell, narrator
Steve Hodson, reader
Plutarch,


5. Pyrrhus (329-272 BC) - 4:05
6. When he was twelve years old - 3:22
7. From this time he began to revolve many and vast projects in his thoughts - 3:56
8. After this battle, Pyrrhus - 3:19
9. But Lysimachus now arriving, and claiming the defeat of Demetrius - 3:03
10. There was one Cineas, a Thessalian - 3:19
11. And first, he sent away Cineas to the Tarentines - 2:46
12. He now received intelligence that Laevinus - 3:05
13. This made Pyrrhus use greater caution - 3:41
14. Then Caius Fabricius came in embassy from the Romans - 3:43
15. The Romans, not having those advantages of retreating - 4:08
16. And being elevated with his good fortune - 2:45
17. He divided his army into two parts - 2:45
18. His affairs being yet unsettled - 2:44
19. Pyrrhus himself, in person - 2:12
20. Pyrrhus, upon the coming of these additional forces - 2:40
21. In the dead of the night - 3:39
22. Pyrrhus, seeing this storm and confusion of things - 2:50

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