How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

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How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise LeadershipAncient Wisdom for Modern Readers Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field. The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famousand massiveLives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us, Plutarch distilled what he learned about wise leadership in a handful

The two-volume edition includes an Introduction

Michael Fontaine’s engaging translation makes this searching exploration of grief available to readers once again

and prophetically relevant to our own

Roman authors saw infinite practical and symbolic value in houses

lavish building projects could lead to financial ruin and moral condemnation

Satire I is Juvenal's explanation of why he writes poetry and satire

He begins with the assumption that Horace is a major poet

in which it finally replaced the late nineteenth century edition of T

While the ideal home enshrined Roman virtues and could make a career

Abbott and Mansfield's primer

How to Flourish is a carefully abridged version of the entire work in a highly readable and colloquial new translation by Susan Sauvé Meyer that makes Aristotle’s timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before

Seneca’s soaring prose captures his wonder at that gift

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