who was plutarch
Plutarch's Life of Theseus (use a child-appropriate version, such as this one) Plutarch's Life of Romulus (Anne White's in-progress Study Guide and Text divided into 12 weekly readings) Who was Plutarch and why are we reading him? Plutarch was a Greek writer who lived from 46 to 120 AD. To quote from the Philip's World History Encyclopedia, his best-known work is his Parallel Lives, which consists of paired biographies of famous Greeks and Romans. Shakespeare used it as the source for his Roman history plays..