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Mason's avatar

Thank you for producing this guide. I recently completed all of the Lives and it was a big help. I'm also enjoying your podcast.

I would note that Penguin's Age of Alexander also contains Eumenes.

You might also mention that Makers of Rome contains Lives that are all included in the other six Penguin volumes, so it's not necessary to purchase this volume if you have the others.

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Alex Petkas's avatar

Thanks Mason - glad to hear all this. Completing all the lives is a big accomplishment!

Will tinker with this accordingly...

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Artiom's avatar

Thanks a lot for Chunks section

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Brian Mahoney's avatar

Thanks, great article, the digital version of the whole Loeb Classical library is available on the Harvard University press site, however I do like those little green hardcover books. Loeb volume numbers of the paired sets as an fyi.

Plutarch

L046) Parallel Lives: Volume I. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola

L047) Parallel Lives: Volume II. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus

L065) Parallel Lives: Volume III. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus

L080) Parallel Lives: Volume IV. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla

L087) Parallel Lives: Volume V. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus

L098) Parallel Lives: Volume VI. Dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus

L099) Parallel Lives: Volume VII. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Julius Caesar

L100) Parallel Lives: Volume VIII. Sertorius and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger

L101) Parallel Lives: Volume IX. Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius

L102) Parallel Lives: Volume X. Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus

L103) Parallel Lives: Volume XI. Aratus. Artaxerxes. Galba. Otho. General Index

Footnote: hardcover little green book versions of these are available on Amazon @ $30 each; alternatively, $175 for one year of full access to all Loeb Classics @ Harvard Press; and also available for free via various Internet free books with some searching, generally older scanned editions for the latter

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Liberty's avatar

Very useful, thanks Alex! 💚 🥃

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