Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. List of figures 6
4. Acknowledgements 7
5. Introduction 9
6. Eustratius of Nicaea as a source for the Neoplatonist notion of levels of virtue in the Early Latin commentators on the Nicomachean Ethics 37
7. Teaching virtue through the law 59
8. The tree and its fruit 79
9. Fostering civic virtue 97
10. Dancing virtue 113
11. The path to virtue 135
12. Virtue and duty 179
13. The Royal Rhetor 207
14. Antagonistic parents in Frances Brooke ’s The Old Maid and The History of Julia Mandeville 253
15. Cracks in the mirror 281
16. Index 329