Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. She works on ancient philosophy and Marxist and feminist theory. She is the author of Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On What is Potentially and What Actually (Parmenides, 2015); Dangerous Liaisons. Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (Merlin Press, 2013); Les Mésaventures de la théodicée. Plotin, Origène et Grégoire de Nysse (Brepols Publishers, 2011).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: Tyranny and DemocracyIntroductionChapter 1: Tyranny in Athens: Aversion, Fascination, and FearChapter 2: Plato's Tyrant and the Crisis of Athenian DemocracyChapter 3: Tyrannical Democracy Part II: The Tyrant's SoulIntroductionChapter 4: The Tyranny of Eros and the Tyrannical Man's AppetitesChapter 5: The Lion and the Wolf: The Tyrant's SpiritChapter 6: Clever Villains: The Tyrant's ReasonConclusion ReferencesGeneral IndexIndex Locorum

Arruzza brings to light important differences between democracy and liberalism (p. 99). Freedom and popular rule do not always go together, and through the cracks of this relation the wolf may well appear. This is, to my view, a precious contribution Arruzza makes both to Platonic scholarship and to the understanding of our own time.

Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. She works on ancient philosophy and Marxist and feminist theory. She is the author of Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On What is Potentially and What Actually (Parmenides, 2015); Dangerous Liaisons. Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (Merlin Press, 2013); Les Mésaventures de la théodicée. Plotin, Origène et Grégoire de Nysse (Brepols Publishers, 2011).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: Tyranny and DemocracyIntroductionChapter 1: Tyranny in Athens: Aversion, Fascination, and FearChapter 2: Plato's Tyrant and the Crisis of Athenian DemocracyChapter 3: Tyrannical Democracy Part II: The Tyrant's SoulIntroductionChapter 4: The Tyranny of Eros and the Tyrannical Man's AppetitesChapter 5: The Lion and the Wolf: The Tyrant's SpiritChapter 6: Clever Villains: The Tyrant's ReasonConclusion ReferencesGeneral IndexIndex Locorum

Arruzza brings to light important differences between democracy and liberalism (p. 99). Freedom and popular rule do not always go together, and through the cracks of this relation the wolf may well appear. This is, to my view, a precious contribution Arruzza makes both to Platonic scholarship and to the understanding of our own time.

Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. She works on ancient philosophy and Marxist and feminist theory. She is the author of Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On What is Potentially and What Actually (Parmenides, 2015); Dangerous Liaisons. Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (Merlin Press, 2013); Les Mésaventures de la théodicée. Plotin, Origène et Grégoire de Nysse (Brepols Publishers, 2011).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: Tyranny and DemocracyIntroductionChapter 1: Tyranny in Athens: Aversion, Fascination, and FearChapter 2: Plato's Tyrant and the Crisis of Athenian DemocracyChapter 3: Tyrannical Democracy Part II: The Tyrant's SoulIntroductionChapter 4: The Tyranny of Eros and the Tyrannical Man's AppetitesChapter 5: The Lion and the Wolf: The Tyrant's SpiritChapter 6: Clever Villains: The Tyrant's ReasonConclusion ReferencesGeneral IndexIndex Locorum

Arruzza brings to light important differences between democracy and liberalism (p. 99). Freedom and popular rule do not always go together, and through the cracks of this relation the wolf may well appear. This is, to my view, a precious contribution Arruzza makes both to Platonic scholarship and to the understanding of our own time.