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Plutarch's Lives

Name: ICHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-07T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Bourbonnais, IL

This topic has 4 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 14 years ago by Rachel White.

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May 13, 2011 at 7:37 pm
JenniferS
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I have just finished reading The Story of Charlotte Mason in which she mentions Plutarch’s Lives (North) several times as a book used for citizenship. Have any of you used this book and do you recommend North’s translation or is there a better one?

Thanks, Jennifer
May 13, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Bookworm
Participant
We do Plutarch’s Lives. We use the Dryden translations edited by Clough; they are easier to find and I appreciate the editing. Read Plutarch OUT LOUD, there will be significant editing needing to be done. Also you will be needing a dictionary nearby and possibly a mythology resource. You will only want to do this with 10-12 and on up, and I recommend a very small amount per day.
May 14, 2011 at 2:38 am
Rachel White
Participant
I’m going to start this with my oldest, he’ll be 11, this next year. I am deciding between the W.H. Weston’s Plutarch’s Lives for Boys and Girls or Rosalie Kaufman’s Our Young Folk’s Plutarch. Kaufman’s has many more lives that she covers, so that’s a plus to me. This will be completely new to me, but I’m looking forward to it.
I also plan to make use of the White study guides at AO.
Bookworm: which Clough edition do you have? I saw one at Amazon that has over 1000 pages and another, a Dover edition, with just over 400.
Rachel
May 14, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Bookworm
Participant
I have the Modern Library Classics editions, two volumes, about 800 pages each. Love them!
May 15, 2011 at 12:19 am
Rachel White
Participant
Thanks; I put them on the wish list for the future, when mine are a little older. Next year, I have to decide between the two youth versions I mentioned.
Rachel