Goddesses, women poets, matronae, lascivious flautists or concubines, those are Plutarch’s
women. The references to women in Plutarch’s Quaestiones Conuiuales are spread all over the
work and occur in a variety of contexts: mythical justification, intimate hygiene, support of
men, the role of mother or simply that of woman. Thus, in this vast gallery presented by the
scholar from Chaeronea, the trivial humane figures will be highlighted with the aim to unveil
the importance of women and their place in the social sphere. Therefore, the image of the female
projected in the Quaestiones will be crossed with the dominant view in Graeco-Roman society.