Jeffrey Beneker

Credentials: North Carolina, PhD'03

Position title: Faculty Director, Chadbourne Residential College; Professor of Classics

Phone: 608-262-3320

Address:
904 Van Hise Hall

Jeff Beneker’s primary research interest is in Greco-Roman biography and historiography. He has written a book on Plutarch’s biographical method, The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives (Oxford 2012) and translated Plutarch’s essays on politics (How to Be a Leader, Princeton 2019) and pedagogy (How to Listen, Princeton 2026). With Craig Gibson (University of Iowa) he has published an edition and translation of the Byzantine progymnasmata of Nikephoros Basilakes (Harvard 2016) and a translation of The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher (Harvard 2021), both for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. He is co-editor of The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World (Wisconsin 2020) and Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences (Brill 2022). He is currently writing a biography of Pompey the Great (for Princeton University Press). In addition to teaching Greek language and literature, he offers lecture courses on Classical Mythology, Greco-Roman religion, and Greek civilization.