Plutarch was a prominent Greek biographer and essayist. Best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of ‘Parallel Lives’, he was equally renowned as a moral essayist through his work of ‘Moralia’. Plutarch has often been compared with Augustine of Hippo and Aristotle, two predominant philosophers of their time. His writings on famous Greek and Roman personalities are not only considered manuscripts of information; rather they are looked upon as acollection of intense study of character. His work doesn’t depict the lives led by famous personalities, but the grounds on which their disposition shaped their lives. After achieving superior recognition and earning admiration of both commoners and kings, Plutarch was granted Roman citizenship, since his work was not restricted only to the Greeks. On attaining Roman citizenship he came to be known as Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.