Parallel Lives and Moralia . [2] He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea , Boeotia , a town about twenty miles east of Delphi . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch   Marinus of Tyre , (ca. 70 - 130 A.D., Greek: Μαρίνος ο Τύριος, also rendered as Marinos of Tyre ) was a