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Plutarch was a vegetarian Greek historian, writer, and thinker
Lived: around 46 AD to 120 AD
Birth place: Chaeronea, Boeotia (Greece)
Plutarch, born Mestrius Plutarchus, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and philosopher. Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy at the Academy of Athens and later worked as a magistrate and ambassador in addition to being a priest. Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans.