Jeffrey Beneker Professor of Classics University of Wisconsin Commons username: @jbeneker canes.wisc.edu/faculty/jeffrey-beneker Following 1 members ViewActivityProfileSites 0CORE deposits 11Following 1Followers 1Groups 2DiscussionsDocsAcademic InterestsAncient Greek religionByzantine literatureByzantine studiesClassical mythologyGreco-Roman biographiesGreek and Roman BiographyGreek historiographyHomerPlutarchRoman religionRoman RepublicCommons GroupsHCAncient Greece & RomeByzantine StudiesRecent Commons Activity deposited Plutarch, How to Be a Leader:… deposited Casanova (A.) Ed. Plutarco e …AboutProfessor of Classics in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and faculty director of Chadbourne Residential College at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.EducationPhD (2002) & MA (1999) Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill MS (1989) Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison BS (1987) Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, MadisonWork Shared in COREBooksPlutarch, How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise LeadershipArticlesNepos’ Biographical Method in the Lives of Foreign GeneralsVariations on a Theme: An Experiment in Latin Prose CompositionThe Theory and Practice of Ostracism in Plutarch’s LivesNo Time for Love: Plutarch’s Chaste CaesarBook chaptersDrunken Violence and the Transition of Power in Plutarch’s AlexanderPlutarch on the Role of Eros in a MarriageEros and Intellect: Plutarch’s Portrait of Aspasia and PericlesThematic Correspondences in Plutarch’s Lives of Caesar, Pompey, and CrassusPlutarch on the Rise and Fall of PompeyBook reviewsCasanova (A.) Ed. Plutarco e l’età ellenistica. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze, 23-24 settembre 2004Other PublicationsHow to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership, by Plutarch. Edited, translated, and introduced by Jeffrey Beneker. Princeton University Press (2019). Audiobook narrated by Matthew Waterson. Highbridge (2019). The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Vol. 43. Edited and translated by Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson. Harvard University Press (2016). The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford University Press (2012).
