According to Wikipedia: 'According to Wikipedia: 'Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. AD 46 - 120 - commonly known in English as Plutarch - was a Roman historian (of Greek ethnicity), biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His known works consist of the Parallel Lives and the Moralia.'