Plutarch, Born in 46 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. Plutarch's Lives were translated into English, from Amyot's version, by Sir Thomas North in 1579. The complete "Moralia" was first translated into English from the original Greek by Philemon Holland in 1603. (*Information from Wikipedia)