2. The Gentleman-Statesman: Aristotle’s (Complicated) Great-Souled Man

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. Introduction: Honorable Statesmen and Obscuring Theories 1
5. 2. The Gentleman-Statesman: Aristotle’s (Complicated) Great-Souled Man 16
6. 3. Imperial Ambition in Free Politics: The Problem of Thucydides’ Alcibiades 58
7. 4. The Soul of Grand Ambition: Alcibiades Cross-Examined by Socrates 81
8. 5. Imperial Grandeur and Imperial Hollowness: Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great 127
9. 6. Obscuring the Truly Great: Washington and Modern Theories of Fame 177
10. 7. Honorable Greatness Denied (1): The Egalitarian Web 198
11. 8. Honorable Greatness Denied (2): The Premises 219
12. Notes 243
13. Index 257