Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Organization of the Book
Part I The Problem of Greatness and the Great-Souled Man from Plato to Plutarch
1 Greatness of Soul: The Perfection of Classical Virtue
Aristotle and the Heroic Virtue
Homer's Externalized Honor
The Rehabilitation of Heroes
Self-Sufficiency and the Noble Soul
The Platonic Critique
Glaucon and the Restraint of Ambition
From Great to Good: Odysseus' Choice
Conclusion

2 The Roman Ideal of Great-Souled Men
Cicero: Ambition Redeemed
Seneca: Magnitudo Animi and the Restraint of Power
Plutarch's Magnanimous Lives
Conclusion
Part II Ambrose's Great-Souled Christians
3 Ambrose: Law, Gospel, and Exemplary Patriarchs
Law and Gospel: Degrees of Imperfection
Law Fulfilled in Love
Spiritual Law and Higher Virtue
Restoring the Faith of the Patriarchs
Conclusion
4 Toward a Higher Standard of Greatness: Renarrating Perfection
Claiming a Higher Moral High Ground
Seneca and the Ideal of Imperial Mercy

Justice, Compassion, and the Bonds of Fellowship
The Magnanimous Compassion of Joseph
Who Should Receive Mercy?
Conclusion: Magnanimous Mercy Redefined
5 Humiliation without Shame or Resentment
Phocion: Dishonoring a Great-Souled Man
Toward a Psychology of Resentment
David's Conscience
Humility and Humiliation
Great-Souled Humility: The Virtue of a Priest and Teacher
Conclusion
Part III Augustine and the Magnus Animus
6 Augustine: The ''Sublime Indifference'' of Greatness?
Childhood Shame and Fears
The Semantic Range of Magnus Animus

Language and the Aspiration for Greatness
Magnitudo Animi as Attachment to God
Greatness of the Small-Souls
Magnanimous Mercy
Conclusion
7 The Witness of Death and the Witness of Conscience: Augustine and the Shaming of Roman Virtue
Whose Crime? Whose Shame?
Lucretia and the Witness of Death
Magnitudo Animi or Infirmitas Mentis?
Conscience: The Arbiter of Christian Self-Knowledge
Conclusion
Epilogue: The End of Virtue
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Ambrose of Milan
Aristotle
Augustine of Hippo
Cicero
Gregory of Nazianzus
Homer
Livy

Philo of Alexandria
Plato
Plutarch
Seneca
Tacitus
Virgil
Secondary Sources
Index