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Excerpt from Lives of Illustrious Greeks: For Schools and Families These "Lives of Illustrious Greeks" are selected from Plutarch's Parallel Lives in Greek, omitting some digressions, which would be neither profitable nor interesting to the reader, and substituting for them such reflections as Plutarch might have made if he had been a Christian. The volume is intended as a companion to the History of Greece for Schools and Families, and it is offered to instructors as an attempt to depict the vivid scenes of Grecian Life, unaccompanied by the errors of heathenism, and mingled with such thoughts as have been suggested by the study of them to one who is himself a parent, and also a teacher of the young. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.