Plutarch

Plutarch of Chaeronea was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, biographer, and essayist, best known for his Parallel Lives and the sprawling collection of essays known as the Moralia. He served for decades as a priest at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and wrote extensively on ethics, education, and self-command. The essay quoted here, The Education of Children, has circulated under his name since antiquity but is judged by most modern scholars to be the work of an imitator in his tradition — ‘pseudo-Plutarch.’