Plutarch (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
Plutarch (PLEW-tahrk) did not accomplish most of his writing until his late middle age. He was born in a Roman province to an old and wealthy Greek family. He received a comprehensive education in Athens, where he studied rhetoric, physics, mathematics, medicine, the natural sciences, philosophy, and Greek and Latin writing. His worldview was strongly influenced by Plato, and he took considerable interest in theology, serving as the head priest at Delphi in the last twenty years of his life. By...
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