Plutarch’s views on love

Abstract

Plutarch was an innovator concerning the attitude to the woman and to love. In his view, love is almost to be defined as conjugal love. He was a spokesman of reciprocal and egalitarian relations between man and woman. The woman shall receive an education and thus be fully responsible for her way of living and be entitled to demand respect and regard on the part of her husband. Plutarch's views on love led him to a radical revaluation of the Platonic concept of Eros. Not pederastie love primarily but conjugal love is the guide to the vision of the Form of the Beautiful.