About

Professor 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.

Education

PhD (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, Madison

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Other Publications

Books

The Byzantine Sinbad, by Michael Andreopoulos. Translated by Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Vol. 67. Harvard University Press (2021).

How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership, by Plutarch. Edited, translated, and introduced by Jeffrey Beneker. Princeton University Press (2019). Preview in Google Books.

  • Audiobook narrated by Matthew Waterson. Highbridge (2019).


The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium. Edited and translated by Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Vol. 43. Harvard University Press (2016). Preview in Google Books.

The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford University Press (2012). Preview in Google Books.

Edited Books

Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia. Edited by Jeffrey Beneker, Craig Cooper, Noreen Humble, and Frances Titchener. Brill’s Plutarch Series, Vol. 10. Brill (2022). Preview in Google Books.

The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World. Edited by Jeffrey Beneker and Georgia Tsouvala. University of Wisconsin Press (2020). Preview in Google Books.

Articles and Reviews Publicly Available

“The Last of the Greeks, and Good Riddance: Historical Commentary in Plutarch’s Philopoemen-Flamininus.” In C. Giroux (ed.), Plutarch: Cultural Practice in a Connected World. Teiresias Supplements Online 3 (2022) 97-118.

Review of C.S. Chrysanthou, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement. Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volumes, 57. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. In Histos 16 (2022) xxvii–xxxi.

Miscellaneous

“Should an Old Man Engage in Politics?” Princeton University Press, April 7, 2020.

“Leadership and Mimicry: What Plutarch Knew about Elizabeth Holmes.” History News Network, May 26, 2019.

Blog Posts

    Projects

    Plutarch in Byzantium. A Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2018-2019).

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