Essays and Miscellanies-Part I (Esprios Classics)

Plutarch (AD 46-after 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher biographer essayist and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans and Moralia a collection of essays and speeches. Upon becoming a Roman citizen he was named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus. Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues vices thus it being more of an insight into human nature than a historical account.