Who it PLUTARCH?

Answer 1

A greek writer and biographer who was a member of the litteray movement known as the second sophistic, which was the greek equivilent to the silver age of latin literature. He wrote during the Julio-Claudian period, his biographies were paired accounts of famous Greeks and Romans to allow for easy comparison between the two cultures. His biographies mainly focus on the lives of men whom he held to be virtuous for the didactic purpose of exemplifying virtue so his readers could understand how to live their own lives in a more virtous fashion, however he wrote one pair of lives that focuses on negative characteristics.