Introduction Verity Harte and Melissa Lane Part I. The Vocabulary of Politics: 1. The political art in Plato's Republic Alexander Long 2. Putting history in its place: Plato, Thucydides, and the Athenian politeia Cynthia Farrar 3. Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarch's Lycurgus Melissa Lane 4. The body politic: Aetius on Alcmaeon on isonomia and monarchia Jaap Mansfeld 5. Latin philosophy and Roman law Miriam Griffin Part II. The Practice of Politics: 6. The Platonic manufacture of ideology, or how to assemble awkward truth and wholesome falsehood Robert Wardy 7. Plato's politics of ignorance Verity Harte 8. The political skill of Protagoras Nicholas Denyer 9. Proclus and politics Jonathan Barnes Part III. The Politics of Value: 10. Relativism in Plato's Protagoras Catherine Rowett 11. Justice writ large and small in Republic IV Myles Burnyeat 12. An aesthetic reading of Aristotle's Ethics Richard Kraut 13. The Stoic sage in the original position Mary Margaret McCabe Part IV. Politics Extended: Animals, Gods, Cosmology: 14. Aristotle on the natural sociability, skills and intelligence of animals Geoffrey Lloyd 15. Gods and men in Xenophanes James Warren 16. Socrates and his gods: from the Euthyphro to the Eudemian Ethics Christopher Rowe 17. The atheist underground David Sedley Malcolm Schofield bibliography, 1970-2012.
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