This collection of essays has a commentary and evaluative bibliography on Plutarch. With the original text and translation, it is designed to help readers understand and appreciate two sources for the study of gender and the family in the Graeco-Roman world and in Western history. Plutarchists, social historian, and general reader will find much that his valuable in this intensive examination of two short essays that bear comparison with treatments of marriage, family, and bereavement in early Christian literature. Hubert M. Martin Jr, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3.