Plutarch was born at Chaeronea (Boeotia), in central Greece, and lived and developed his literary and pedagogical activity between the first and second centuries d. BC, when Greece was a province of the Roman Empire. He was educated in Athens and visited, among other places, Egypt and Rome, interacting with a large number of intellectuals and politicians of his time. He held positions in the administration of the city, where he founded a Platonic Academy of inspiration, and sacer dowry was in the sanctuary of Delphi.