Lecture One: Office and Anarchy This lecture introduces the importance of political office in the grammar of Greek constitutional thought, by exploring historical moments suggestin...

Lecture Two: Office and Accountability   This lecture argues for the centrality of accountability to classical Greek ideas and practices of political office. The Thirty are aga...

Lecture Three: Ruling and Being Ruled   Turning from the articulation of constitutional rule in terms of office, to the idea of rule itself as articulated in Aristotle and Xeno...

Lecture Four: Rule, Law, and Liberty   While rule requires the willing obedience of the ruled to the rulers, it also requires the willing obedience of the rulers to the li...

Lecture Five: Office and Rule in Constitutional Change    The four imperfect constitutions of Republic VIII are the topic of this lecture, in which the role of officeholders or...

Lecture Six: The Purposes of Office and Rule    Turning back to Republic I in dialogue with the Statesman, this lecture explores rule as a phenomenon that includes but is ...