According to George Grant the author of Why Read Plutarch?, he states “Plutarch's interest in history had a definite character.” His writing is usually expressed clearly and right to the point. Plutarch is known for writing about certain parts of Greek and Roman history. Main points that Plutarch would write would be about would be the people involved, biographies on them. Biography.com states that “Plutarch was educated at the Academy of Athens, studying philosophy, rhetoric, physics and mathematics under the tutelage of the philosopher Ammonius.” Ammonius was a Greek philosopher who is considered to be on of the founders of Neoplatonism (a type of philosophy), but he is mainly known as a teacher. Plutarch had no main biographer, so he wrote
