PLUTARCH

PLUTARCH

Boeotia, approx. 45 - 120 B.C.

The greatest of the ancient Greek scribes. He was born in Chaeronia, Boeotia in 46 AD. and died there at 127. He studied philosophy in Athens. He traveled to Alexandria and Rome, where he stayed for a long time, and became associated with the Court of Trajan, to later become the teacher of the emperor Hadrian. When he returned to Greece, he obtained the offices of lord and priest of the Pythian Games. He wrote 85 works, of which the most important are "Parallel Lives" and his treatises entitled "Ethics". The first are biographies of Greek and Roman officials, written in an engaging and instructive style, valuable for the historical evidence they provide.

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