Images with borders lead to more information. There are on the other hand several complete Greek texts of the Lives online: the header bar of each of my pages for these English translations includes a link to the most convenient of them. In the print edition, some notes are referred to a note to a previous Life I found it simpler to do the same, although often enough that previous note is not thoroughly satisfactory: still, the diligent reader will probably not begrudge me the shortcut - and the superficial reader will never notice.Ī seeming myriad of other English translations of the Parallel Lives are online since, however, - at least as of writing, May 2012 - every one of them is incomplete, sometimes wretchedly and deceptively so, I'm not recommending any you're on your own. The Loeb translation includes a few notes I put them online, and sometimes added further information.

Stephanus' page numbers are also provided in the table below, for look‑up purposes. In addition, the traditional numbering scheme, the page numbers in the 1624 Paris edition - Stephanus' textus receptus - are indicated in the left margin to the extent that the Loeb edition provides them (which is not often), and the Loeb edition's page numbers in the right they too are anchors.

The Loeb edition's introductory material, by Bernadotte Perrin.įor another summary of his life, and a brief but careful assessment of him as a philosopher and historian, seeĬhapter and Section Numbering, Local Linksīoth chapters (represented by large numbers embedded in the text) and sections (small numbers) mark local links, according to a consistent scheme you can therefore link directly to any passage. Should you spot one, please do report it, of course.įurther details on the technical aspects of the site layout follow the Table of Contents.įor a summary of Plutarch's life and of the manuscripts, editions and translations of the Lives, see In the table of contents below, all the Lives are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that they've been minutely proofread the header bar at the top of each webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. ( Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) (Details here on the copyright law involved.)Īs usual, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. Dating in its entirety back to before 1923, it is in the public domain. The translation is that of the Loeb Classical Library edition (Cambridge, MA and London), by Bernadotte Perrin.

Plutarch's lives book