Plutarch

Plutarch was born to a prominent Greek family in the year 46. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the Academy of Athens from 66 to 67. Plutarch had an active civic and social life, working as a magistrate and ambassador in Chaeronea and as a priest of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Plutarch traveled widely throughout the Mediterranean world and at some point he became a Roman citizen. Today, Plutarch is most remembered for being a biographer, historian, and essayist, and primarily for his series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, Parallel Lives.