Bernadotte Perrin (1847–1920) was Lampson Professor of Greek at Yale University. A specialist in Greek historical biography, he devoted the later part of his career to Plutarch, producing the eleven-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of the Parallel Lives (1914–1926). Perrin's work made Plutarch's Lives accessible to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time since the North translation of 1579. He combined careful scholarship with readable prose, and his introductions to each Life remain useful starting points for students.
The Loeb Classical Library, founded by James Loeb in 1911, presents classical texts with facing English translations — Greek on the left page, English on the right. Perrin's Loeb edition of Plutarch's Lives does not present an independent critical text: following Loeb convention, the Greek text is based on an existing standard edition — in this case, primarily the Teubner texts established by Cl. Lindskog and K. Ziegler. Perrin's contribution is the translation and the editorial apparatus (introductions, notes), not the establishment of the Greek text. The text you are reading here is therefore essentially the Teubner tradition as transmitted through the Loeb edition.
Bernadotte Perrin (Loeb Classical Library)
Text follows the Teubner edition (Sintenis, rev. Ziegler). Perrin translated for the Loeb Classical Library.
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