Plutarch
Greek Lives
Lycurgus • Themistocles • Pericles • Alcibiades
Lysander • Alexander • Demosthenes • Pyrrhus
Read by Nicholas Farrell with Steve Hodson
Plutarch’s series of biographies was the first of its kind,
as much ground-breaking in conception as the Histories of Herodotus. Plutarch
looked at the great men of the Ancient World and told their stories, in many
cases drawing on sources which are no longer available to us. They offer a
unique insight into the characters as well as the achievements of men who
influenced their age and the empires that their culture dominated. They are as
accessible now as they were when they were first written.
ABOUT THE READER
Nicholas Farrell has worked extensively on both stage and
screen. He played Horatio in Branagh’s film of Hamlet, and Antonio in Nunn’s
Twelfth Night. At the RSC and elsewhere in London he has appeared frequently in
classical drama, including Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar,
as well as Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters. His most recent
television credits include The Jury, Spooks, Reversals and Foyles War. He read
the part of Buckingham in King Richard III for Naxos AudioBooks and can be
heard regularly on radio.
