Cover
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Overview: Why Rule and Office? Why Plato
Chapter 2. Rule and Office: Figures, Vocabularies, Stances
Part II. Reconfigurations of Rule and Office
Chapter 3. Rule and the Limits of Office (Laws)
Chapter 4. Rethinking the Role of Ruler and the Place of Office (Statesman)
Chapter 5. Defining the Telos of Rule (Republic, Book 1)
Chapter 6. Guarding as Serving: The Conundrum of Wages in a Kallipolis (Republic, Books 1-5)

Chapter 7. Philosophers Reigning: Rulers and Officeholders in a Kallipolis (Republic, Books 5-7)
Part III. Degenerations of Rule and Office
Chapter 8. The Macro Narrative: Flawed Constitutions within Cities (Republic, Book 8)
Chapter 9. The Micro Narrative: Flawed Constitutions within Souls (Republic, Books 8-9)
Part IV. Thematizations of Rule and Office
Chapter 10. Against Tyranny: Plato on Freedom, Friendship, and the Place of Law
Chapter 11. Against Anarchy: The Horizon of Platonic Rule
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Selected Greek Terms
Bibliography
Index