The Passionate Statesman: Erõs and Politics in Plutarch's Lives

Oxford University Press (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 erõs, or erotic desire, on the careers of some of the most prominent statesmen from Greco-Roman antiquity

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Kleopatra i eros w Żywocie Antoniusza. O nadinterpretacji dzieła Plutarcha.Lucyna Kostuch - 2017 - Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 7 (2):259-270.

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