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The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch

by Plutarch (46–119)

28 chapters, about 135,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. THESEUS 7,500 words
2. ROMULUS 6,800 words
3. COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS 500 words
4. LYCURGUS 7,100 words
5. SOLON 4,300 words
6. THEMISTOCLES 5,400 words
7. CAMILLUS 10,700 words
8. PERICLES 8,600 words
9. DEMOSTHENES 6,200 words
10. CICERO 13,300 words
11. COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO 1,300 words
12. ALCIBAIDES 8,700 words
13. CORIOLANUS 7,500 words
14. COMPARISON OF ALCIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS 1,000 words
15. ARISTIDES 5,100 words
16. CIMON 5,500 words
17. POMPEY 14,900 words
18. DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA FROM THE LIFE OF ANTONY 1,900 words
19. THE BROTHERS FROM THE LIFE OF TIMOLEON 800 words
20. THE WOUND OF PHILOPOEMEN 2,200 words
21. FROM THE LIFE OF QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS 600 words
22. THE CRUELTY OF LUCIUS CORNELIUS SYLLA 700 words
23. THE LUXURY OF LUCULLUS 1,000 words
24. FROM THE LIFE OF SERTORIUS 1,300 words
25. THE SCROLL-FROM THE LIFE OF LYSANDER 200 words
26. THE CHARACTER OF MARCUS CATO 2,300 words
27. ALEXANDER THE GREAT 8,300 words
28. THE DEATH OF CAESAR 900 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Acorn
• Alcibiades
• Archimedes
• Ion (dialogue)
• Libya
• Pericles
• Theatre
• Theseus
• Thucydides

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