Person
Plutarch
Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and philosopher
Plutarch, named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus c. 46 – 120 CE), is a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.
He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.