Parallel Lives

Plutarch, born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Boeotian region of Greece circa 46 AD, stands as one of antiquity's most renowned biographers and moralists. Notable of Latin name Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, he ventured through many facets of the intellectual world, contributing heavily to biographical literature, philosophy, and ethics through his illustrious life which spanned the late 1st ...