CONTENTS

181  Demokratia and Arete in Ancient Greek Political Thought , J.R. Wallach

216  Plato’s Theory of Democratic Decline, B.M. Fissell

235  Laughing to Learn: Irony in the Republic as Pedagogy, J. Fine

250 Socrates’ Pragma and Socrates’ Toughness: On the Proper Translation of Apology 30b 2–4, J. Samad

267  Generosity and Inequality in Aristotle’s Ethics , A. Ward

279   The Problem of the Partheniae in Aristotle’s Political Thought , A.L. Shuster

309 Review Article: On History and Ideology (Again), M. Edge

320 On History and Ideology — A Response to Edge , P.L.P. Simpson

325 Book Reviews

327 Paul Cartledge, Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities (Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. xv + 261, $19.95, ISBN 9780199233380. Reviewed by Roger Brock.

330 Mark Blitz, Plato’s Political Philosophy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), pp. 336, $60.00, ISBN 9780801897641. Reviewed by Malcolm Schofield.

332 Andrew Mason, Plato (Durham: Acumen, 2009), pp. viii + 224, £14.99, ISBN 9781844651746. TimO’Keefe, Epicureanism (Durham: Acumen, 2009), pp. xvii + 206, £14.99, ISBN 9781844651702. M.R. Wright, Introducing Greek Philosophy (Durham: Acumen, 2009), pp. xii + 244, £14.99, ISBN 9781844651832. Reviewed by Brian Earl Johnson.

339 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII: Symposium Aristotelicum, ed. Carlo Natali (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 296, $90.00, ISBN 9780199558445. Reviewed by Paula Gottlieb.

344 Steven Berg, Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment: On Plato’s Symposium (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2010), pp. 170, $70.00, ISBN 9781438430171. Reviewed by Paul O’Mahoney.

349 Christina H. Tarnopolsky, Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato’s Gorgias and the Politics of Shame (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. xiii + 218, $35.00, ISBN 9780691128566. Reviewed by James H. Nichols, Jr.

353 Danielle S. Allen, Why Plato Wrote, Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. xii + 232, $69.95, ISBN 9781444334487. Reviewed by LeeTrepanier.

356 David N. McNeill, An Image of the Soul in Speech: Plato and the Problem of Socrates (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. ix + 345, $65.00, ISBN 9780271035857. Reviewed by Sara Brill.

360 Page duBois, Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks (Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. x + 236, $29.95, ISBN 9780674035584. Reviewed by Carl A. Rubino.

365 Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide, ed. Mark L. McPherran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xiii + 273, $85.00, ISBN 9780521491907. Reviewed by Andrea Tschemplik.