Plutarch

Plutarch was born around AD 46 in Chaeronea, a small town in Boeotia, in central Greece, into a wealthy family, and he lived there for most of his life. He studied philosophy, rhetoric and mathematics in Athens under the Platonist philosopher Ammonius, and traveled to Egypt and Italy, where he lectured in Rome and made friends among leading Romans. He became a Roman citizen. Plutarch married Timoxena, and they had several children; a letter of comfort he wrote to her after the death of their young daughter survives. For about the last thirty years of his life he served as one of the two priests of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. His most famous work, the Parallel Lives, pairs biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, to show their virtues and vices and to offer moral examples. His many essays and dialogues, collected as the Moralia, discuss ethics, religion, politics, education and nature. His works were widely read in the Renaissance and influenced writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare. He died some time after AD 119.

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Faith: Served as a priest of Apollo at Delphi. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy