Books by Jeffrey Beneker
Jeffrey Beneker is Professor of Classics at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
by Jeffrey Beneker & Plutarch
"Should an Old Man Engage in Politics?" is the title of one of Plutarch's essays, translated in Jeffrey Beneker's How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership. The book is part of Princeton University Press's "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers" series and we can safely say that many of the issues Plutarch worried about remain relevant today.
We spoke to Jeff Beneker about the Best Books on Leadership (from Ancient Greek and Rome).
Interviews with Jeffrey Beneker
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
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The Greek Alexander Romance
by Richard Stoneman -
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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.
