This man's namesake paradox was that atheism is less pernicious than superstition.
This man's namesake paradox was that atheism is less pernicious than superstition. As what was likely a rhetorical exercise, this man composed the treatise "On the Malice of Herodotus." For most of his life, this historian served as one of the priests in charge of the Delphic Oracle. In addition to writing Moralia, he maintained his major goal was to not write history but "epitomize life" in the opening paragraph of his The Life of Alexander. That work uses moral anecdotes to link character with physiognomy, and links  Eumenes with Sertorius, Cicero with Demosthenes and Theseus with Romulus. For 10 points, identify this Roman historian who wrote the Parallel Lives.
This man's namesake paradox was that atheism is less pernicious than superstition.
Plutarch or Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus