It takes the average reader 27 hours and 22 minutes to read Parallel Lives by Plutarch
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans or Parallel Lives is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD by Plutarch. Parallel Lives comprises 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals described, but also about the times in which they lived. Volume I contains 13 pairs of biographies from Theseus and Romulus to Cimon and Lucullus, with comparisons.
Parallel Lives by Plutarch is 1,623 pages long, and a total of 410,619 words.
This makes it 548% the length of the average book. It also has 502% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 37 hours and 23 minutes to read Parallel Lives aloud.
Parallel Lives is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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