Plutarch (AD 45?- AD 120) was an Greek essayist, biographer, philosopher, historian, and moralist. In his lifetime, he traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome and Athens, and became a priest of the temple of Delphi. Plutarch is most famous writing for THE PARALLEL LIVES, comprised of 46 surviving biographies arranged in pairs (one Greek life with one comparable Roman life) and four single biographies.
