

The Life of Pyrrhus
Author: Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin
Narrator: Andrea Giordani
Unabridged: 1 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Audio Sommelier
Published: 05/04/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Greece History
Author: Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin
Narrator: Andrea Giordani
Unabridged: 1 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Audio Sommelier
Published: 05/04/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Greece History
Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Lives and Moralia. He is considered today to be a Middle Platonist. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.
Alexander Wannabe 31 July 2018 It seems that as soon as Alexander the Great went roaring through the Middle East carving out one of the largest empires then known every two-bit ruler wanted to not only emulate, but exceed, his accomplishments. Honestly, I’m not sure that is at all possible because no......more
i once played a game of risk and lost very quickly because i couldnt get a single decent dice roll. that must be how Pyrrhus felt. This book has one of my favorite anecdotes from antiquity, a conversation between Pyrrhus and his resident philosopher friend who during a conversation keeps asking Pyrr......more
This review is specifically for the edition edited by Anne White. That edition is broken up into 12 reading “lessons” and each one contains vocab, important information at the beginning of each reading portion, and discussion questions at the end of each section. These edits make Plutarch’s “Lives”......more