Work
Pericles
Περικλῆς
By Plutarch.
- Kind of writing
- Biography
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 1st–2nd c. AD
- Length
- 11,266 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 68% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. III. Perrin, Bernadotte, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1916.
- English translationPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. III. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1916.
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