The Passionate Statesman by Jeferey Beneker

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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