Plutarch was a Greek biographer and author born in the 1st century CE whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, an...

Plutarch’s popularity rests primarily on his Parallel Lives, biographies of Greek and Roman heroes in pairs, chosen for their similarity of charact...

Plutarch was a prolific writer who produced over 200 works, not all of which survived antiquity. Besides the Parallel Lives, the Moralia (or Ethica...

Plutarch held the chief magistracy and other municipal posts in Chaeronea and directed a school there with a focus on philosophy, especially ethics...

Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus, himself a biographer and philosopher. Plutarch was married to a woman named Timoxena, and they had at least fi...