Plutarch

Mary Shelley wrote: "The volume of 'Plutarch's Lives,' which I possessed, contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics... Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections to admire and love the heroes of past ages." Read what Shelley, Ben Jonson and others had to say...

"This is a collection of quotes from Plutarch which were worked into the form of a letter to Trajan."

"The Society exists to further the study of Plutarch and his various writings and to encourage scholarly communication between those working on Plutarchan studies."

David Braund writes, "The principal concern of this paper is to explore the relevance of Euripides' Phoenician Women to Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus. It will be argued that the relevance of the play is much more substantial than usually acknowledged: that its relevance goes beyond the two direct quotations from the play which occur in the Life."