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EBOOK Passionate Statesman:Eros and Politics in Plutarch's Lives
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191626364
EAN: 0F7DFD23EB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2012
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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 ers, 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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