Selected essays on ethics, education, and other subjects by Plutarch (Plutarchus), circa 45-120 A.D., who was born in Chaeronea, Boeotia, central Greece. He studied philosophy in Athens and, after coming to Rome as a philosophy professor, was decorated by Emperor Trajan and appointed financial supervisor in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and had one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of noble nature and independent thought, studious and educated. Plutarch wrote on many subjects. The most popular are the forty-six "Parallel Lives," biographies designed to provide moral examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), although the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, generals, and orators. Plutarch's other diverse surviving works, about sixty in number, are known as the "Moralia" or "Moral Essays." They have high literary value and are very 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.