The case for greatness: honorable ambition and its critics

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.