Owens, M. T. (1984) “A Further Note on Certain of Hamilton’s Pseudonyms: The ‘Love of Fame’ and the Use of Plutarch.” Journal of the Early Republic 4: 275-86.

Excerpt:
Those who study the early republic owe a debt of gratitude to
Douglass Adair for his rediscovery of the principle of fame in his
article, “Fame and the Founding Fathers.”‘ He and his col-
league Gerald Stourzh were the first to show that for the
founders, fame was, in the words of Forrest McDonald, “the
secular equivalent of Christian immortality.”

The founders themselves looked to antiquity for their models
of greatness and virtue, since, as Aristotle remarked, one studies
virtue by studying the actions of virtuous men. For the founders,
the great source for this study of virtue was Plutarch’s

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