Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index
Introduction: Honorable statesmen and obscuring theories -- The gentleman-statesman : Aristotle’s (complicated) great-souled man -- Imperial ambition in free politics : the problem of Thucydides’ Alcibiades -- The soul of grand ambition : Alcibiades cross-examined by Socrates -- Imperial grandeur and imperial hollowness : Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great -- Obscuring the truly great : Washington and modern theories of fame -- Honorable greatness denied (1) : the egalitarian web -- Honorable greatness denied (2) : the premises.
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