"CAESAR AND THAT ARMY, WHO HAD STORMED A THOUSAND CITIES, SUBDUED OVER 3000 NATIONS, GAINED NUMBERLESS BATTLES OF THE GERMANS AND GAULS, TAKEN A MILLION PRISONERS AND KILLED AS MANY IN THE FIELD"

Solon (c.  638 – c.  558 BC) was an Athenian poet, statesman, and lawmaker. In Plutarch's telling, he is particularly notable for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in pre-Socratic Athens.

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is also called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives. A series of biographies of famous leaders from ancient Greece and Rome, they are arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings across the two civilizations and were likely written at the beginning of the second century AD. The Lives seem to give the Creature a stirring ideal of the human life that is unlike his own experience of existence.