Name this Roman biographer who paired up twenty-three Greeks with twenty-three Romans in his Parallel Lives.
Some of this historian's essays include "On Being A Busybody" and "On Praising Oneself Inoffensively", and his essay "Table Talk" contains a section titled "Whether the hen or the egg came first". His most famous work ends with the suicide of Otho and begins with the story of Theseus, who was chosen because he was the founder of Athens and therefore contrasted well with Romulus. Name this Roman biographer who paired up twenty-three Greeks with twenty-three Romans in his Parallel Lives.
Some of this historian's essays include "On Being A Busybody" and "On Praising Oneself Inoffensively", and his essay "Table Talk" contains a section titled "Whether the hen or the egg came first".
(Lucius Mestrius) {Plutarch} (of Chaeronea)