Books by Ian Scott-Kilvert
“Plutarch would argue that what you’re doing in your private life will predict what’s going to happen if we put you in charge of public life. If you can’t run the small economy of your household in a competent way, why would we put you in charge of the city’s economy? It’s that way of thinking.” Read more...
The best books on Leadership: Lessons from the Ancients
Jeffrey Beneker, Classicist
Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
by Ian Scott-Kilvert
The ancient writer Polybius relates Rome’s rise to dominance over the Mediterranean, an event which he called unprecedented. He is very concerned with the causes of war. He thinks that war and foreign policy events have definite causes, and he presents a method to understand those causes.
Interviews where books by Ian Scott-Kilvert were recommended
The best books on War and Foreign Policy, recommended by John David Lewis
Duke University professor choose fives books on war and foreign policy and says that neoconservative veneration of nationalism leads to a foreign policy of perpetual war overseas
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
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The Greek Alexander Romance
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Atticus
by Cornelius Nepos & Nicholas Horsfall -
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Agricola
by Harold Mattingly, James Rives & Tacitus -
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch)
The best books on Leadership: Lessons from the Ancients, recommended by Jeffrey Beneker
The best books on Leadership: Lessons from the Ancients, recommended by Jeffrey Beneker
Whatever modern leadership books may say about what’s required to be a good leader, for the ancients there was only one vital requirement: studying philosophy. Jeffrey Beneker, Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks us through what ancient biographies reveal about how to be a leader.
