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title: "Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans (Complete and Unabridged)"
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# Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans (Complete and Unabridged)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Not what I’d recommend for Undergrads/High Schoolers
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2019*

I’ll state my problems with this first. This edition has no introductions, explanatory footnotes, or discussion of Plutarch as a source. It uses the 17th century Dryden translation with the 19th century Clough edits. That is to say, it’s not the most readable translation for most young people. It also doesn’t number the chapters of the lives, so if you’re planning on quoting it in a formal academic paper you won’t be able to cite it correctly if your professor is a stickler about that sort of thing. If you’re new to Plutarch, an undergraduate student or even a high school student, I would recommend the Oxford or Penguin editions of Plutarchs lives. They don’t have all the lives compiled in one volume, instead they put out collections of lives with specific themes (fall of Roman republic, age of Alexander etc etc). You’re better off choosing the 10-20 lives you’re most interested in and doing it that way. All those editions include all the helpful bits of information listed above and use much more modern translations and are thus much easier to handle for the modern reader. If you’re comfortable with the Dryden translation and don’t need to cite it, this is the only collection which presents all of the lives that I would trust. This volume is definitely superior to the other digi-reads edition that amazon is offering.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Must read for those interested in western history
  

*by E***C on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2017*

If you're a fan of Western history & classical Greek / Roman texts, you'll love this. It's always shocking to me how much ancient history has played a part in shaping the language, customs and ideas of today. This continuity bleeds through in every page. Plutarch discusses myths and historical texts revolving around major figures of Grecian and Roman history. He works to create accurate depictions, pointing out likely exaggerations or falsehoods in some historical accounts and paying equal attention to the vices as well as the virtues of his subjects.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    poor typesetting and proofing
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2018*

The stars are for this edition, not for Plutarch or the translation.Clough edited the translations of Dryden and his team, and occasionally the English is old-fashioned--"discover," for example, often means "reveal" rather than "find out." This edition has no notes, and depending on your knowledge of Greek and Roman history, you may have to make frequent reference to Wikipedia.  Pronouns often lack clear antecedents, and it is sometimes necessary to re-read passages in order to straighten out the identities of the many otherwise unidentified "he's" and "him's."It is convenient to have a "complete" translation in one volume, and the binding (I have the paperback edition) is sturdy enough to survive a reading, although at over a thousand pages, the book does become heavy to hold after a while. The worst defects of this particular edition are its typesetting and proofreading.  I suspect a text was scanned using an optical character reader to generate the files used to typeset this. Typos abound, and the italics appear to have disappeared during typesetting. The layout of the text appears to result from using the standard default setting of Microsoft Word.  There is extra space at the end of each paragraph, and a paragraph indent on the line following each "carriage return." This results in many paragraph breaks and paragraph indents in the middle of sentences.  In most cases, I was able to figure out the intended word and the proper formatting, but the number of such cases makes reading this version more of a challenge than any reading should be.

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