Beneker, Jeffrey. The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
From the publisher:
- An analysis of Plutarch’s method of interpreting history through the lens of moral virtue, and then using those interpretations to create ethical biography
- Includes a detailed reading of the Lives of Demetrius and Marc Antony as a single book
- Offers an examination of how Xenophon’s Cyropaedia influenced Plutarch’s characterization of Alexander the Great
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