Plutarch

Plutarch was active in politics and traveled to Rome several times as a public servant. In Rome, he was a popular philosopher and public figure and traveled in circles that included the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Plutarch is known to have written 227 works of various sorts. Of these, <em>Parallel Lives</em>, a collection of biographies about Greek and Roman figures, and <em>Morals</em>, a collection of works on ethical, political, religious, and literary topics.