1st-Century Greek People - Hero of Alexandria, Plutarch, Epictetus, Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, Archelaus of Cilicia (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Hero of Alexandria, Plutarch, Epictetus, Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, Archelaus of Cilicia, Pedanius Dioscorides, Nicomachus, Rufus of Ephesus, Anonymus Londinensis, Eunice, Crinagoras of Mytilene, Alexander of Myndus, Demetrius the Cynic, Vibullia Alcia Agrippina, Aristarchus of Thessalonica, Athenaeus of Attalia, Pamphile of Epidaurus, Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, Alexander Philalethes, Aristoxenus, Heraclitus, Xenocrates of Aphrodisias, Andromachus, Didymus the Musician, Claudius Agathemerus, Marcus Mettius Epaphroditus, Caius Iulius Eurycles, Philonides, Agrippa, Aristocles of Messene, Apollodorus, Nicarchus, Agathinus, Apollonius Glaucus, Philotas, Onasander, Philoxenus, Damocrates, Erotianus, Proclus of Rhegium, Thallus, Potamo of Mytilene, Lamprias, Soteridas of Epidaurus, Achaichus, Glaucias of Athens, Areius Paianieus. Excerpt: Plutarch (Ancient Greek:, Ploutarkhos, Ancient Greek: ) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( ), c. 46 - 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where Plutarch served as one of the priests responsible for interpreting the predictions of the oracle.Plutarch was born in 46 AD in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia. His family was wealthy. The name of Plutarch's father has not been preserved, but it was probably Nikarchus, from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name in alternate generations. The name of Plutarch's grandfather was Lamprias, as he attested in Moralia and in his Life of Antony. His brothers, Timon and Lamprias, are frequently mentioned in h...