Plutarch
Details
Birth Date c. 46
Death Date c. 120
Personal Name Plutarch.
Alternate Names
- Plutarch
- Μέστριος Πλούταρχος
- Πλούταρχος
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
- L. Mestrius Plutarchus
Plutarch, born Plutarchos (Greek: Πλούταρχος) then, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Plutarch died between the years AD 119 and 127.