Universal essays on ethics, education, and much more. Plutarch (Ploutarchos), approximately 45-120 AD, was born in Chaeronea, Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy in Athens, and after coming to Rome as a philosophy teacher, he obtained a high position from Emperor Trajan and was appointed procurator in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of a daughter and four sons. He appears as a kind-hearted and independent thinker, studious and educated. Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular are the forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies designed to be moral examples in pairs (in each pair, a Greek figure and a similar Roman), although the last four lives are individual. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge about the lives and characters of Greek and Roman politicians, generals, and orators. His many other varied surviving works, about sixty in number, are known as the Moralia or Moral Essays. They have high literary value, in addition to being greatly useful for those interested in philosophy, ethics, and religion. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, with volume XIII having two parts. Volume XVI is a comprehensive index.