Plutarch was born in Chaeronea, a city of Boeotia in central Greece around 45–47 AD to an ancient aristocratic Theban family. He began studying at Athens with a Platonist philosopher named Ammonius.
Plutarch is believed to have had a liberal education at Athens, where he studied physics, rhetoric, mathematics, medicine, natural science, philosophy, Greek, and Latin literature.
Although Plutarch visited Athens often, studying their philosophy under Ammonius, and he travelled to both Alexandria in Egypt and Italy, he spent most of his life in his native city and in nearby Delphi.
He lived in his own golden age, during the reigns of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. The author of more than 200 works, he is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, biographies that over the centuries have heavily shaped popular ideas of Greek and Roman history.
Plutarch paid special attention to “physics,”, which in antiquity included metaphysics, natural philosophy, psychology and theology.
Plutarch - The Greek biographer, historian, essayist, and moralist
