Walcot, P. (1999) “Plutarch on Women.” Symbolae Osloenses 74 (1): 163-83.

The evidence offered by the Lives and the Moralia shows that Plutarch had a low opinion of women, regarding them as being deceitful, savage, sexually insatiable, frivolous and gossips. Women are thought to be weak and to need to be protected, from themselves as much as from others, by men but, at the same time, dangerous. There are, however, notable exceptions, most obviously those women whose stories are related in the Mulierum Virtutes.

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