Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory

(Paper) Debating Constitutions: Herodotus and Thucydides on the Rhetoric of Regimes - Robert Stone, University of Florida

(Paper - Virtual) Heard like a Man: Lysistrata and the Politics of Listening - Sam McChesney, Northwestern University

(Paper) The Lie of Nobility: Plato's Noble Lie and the Democratic Power of Deception - Patrick Giamario, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

(Paper) Drinking Wine in Public: Plato's Lesson for Democratic Theory Reconsidered - Jonathan William Dahlsten, University of Texas at Austin

(Paper) The Politics of Spectacle and Spectatorship in Augustine's "City of God" - Mikael Good, Georgetown University

Samuel Stevens UC Berkeley