What is the author's style in Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch?

Plutarch is writing in the second century A.D., hundreds of years after the lives of some of the men he profiles, but only a generation or less removed from others. His perspective changes from life to life somewhat, as he is more or less removed in time from his subject. He works primarily from the writings of other historians for the outlines of his lives, but he notes that these sources often disagree and gives his own opinion on the likely accuracy of each version.