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The Passionate Statesman - Eros and Politics in Plutarch's Lives (Hardcover)
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The Passionate Statesman - Eros and Politics in Plutarch's Lives (Hardcover)
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The Passionate Statesman explores the intersection of passion and
politics in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with special emphasis on how
he represents the influence of eros, or erotic desire, on the
careers of some of the most prominent statesmen from Greco-Roman
antiquity. Using Aristotle's notion of friendship and Plato's
conception of the soul to describe the ideal marriage as based on a
mutual love of character (philia), supported by an enduring erotic
attraction, Beneker examines how Plutarch applied his system of
ethics both to his reading of history and to his writing of
biography. With close readings focusing on the three pairs of
biographies from Parallel Lives, namely the Greek kings (Alexander
the Great, Demetrius 'the besieger', and Agesilaus) and Roman
statesmen (Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Marc Antony), the book draws
a general conclusion about how Plutarch uses the narration of his
subjects' private erotic affairs to interpret their historical
deeds.
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