The passionate statesman [[electronic resource] ] : Eros and politics in Plutarch's Lives / / Jeffrey Beneker

• Autore: Beneker Jeffrey
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 938.007202
• Soggetto topico: Statesmen
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Biography History and criticism; Rome Biography History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Editions and Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. ErÅ?s and Marriage""; ""The Parts of the Soul""; ""Philia and Marriage""; ""ErÅ?s, Philia, and Marriage""; ""Brutus and Porcia""; ""Perides and Aspasia""; ""Idealism and Realism""; ""2. Moral Virtue, ErÅ?s, and History""; ""Historical-Ethical Reconstruction in the Lives""; ""Moral Virtue in the Pelopidasâ€?Marcellus""; ""Dion, Dionysius, and Platoâ€?s Tyrannical Man""; ""3. ErÅ?s and Ambition in the Alexanderâ€?Caesar""; ""Building an Empire: Alexanderâ€?s SÅ?phrosynÄ? and Ambition"" ; ""Xenophonâ€?s Cyrus and Plutarchâ€?s Alexander""""ErÅ?s in the Alexander""; ""Thymos, Ambition, and SÅ?phrosynÄ?""; ""ErÅ?s and Ambition in the Caesar""; ""Limits to ErÅ?s and Ambition""; ""4. ErÅ?s and the Fall of Mark Antony""; ""ErÅ?s in the Demetrius""; ""Antonyâ€?s Women""; ""The Early Years""; ""Fulvia""; ""Fulvia and Cleopatra""; ""Octavia and Cleopatra""; ""Cleopatra""; ""5. ErÅ?s and the Statesman""; ""SÅ?phrosynÄ? in Xenophon and Plutarch""; ""ErÅ?s in the Agesilausâ€?Pompey""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index Locorum""; ""A""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""H"" ; ""L""""P""; ""Q""; ""S""; ""V""; ""X""; ""Index of Greek Words""; ""Index of Names""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""; ""Index of Topics""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""
• Sommario/riassunto: 'The Passionate Statesman' explores the intersection of passion and politics in Plutarch's 'Lives', with special emphasis on how he represents the influence of erotic desire, on the careers of some of the most prominent statesmen from Greco-Roman antiquity.
• Titolo autorizzato: The passionate statesman
• ISBN: 1-280-68574-3; 9786613662682; 0-19-162636-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996214833603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno