Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina, USA. He is the former editor of Transactions of the American Philological Association. He is the author of Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness (1994), Latin Erotic Elegy (2002), Subjecting Verses (2004), Latin Verse Satire (2005), Postmodern Spiritual Practices (2007), A Tibullus Reader (2013), Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato (2015) andHorace (2019). He has edited fifteen volumes of essays on literary theory, gender studies, and topics in classics as well as published more than 80 articles on Latin, Greek, French, and English literature, theory, and philosophy.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Government of the Living: Acts of Truth from Oedipus to the Primitive ChurchChapter 2: Subjectivity and Truth: From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Philosophic LifeChapter 3: Hermeneutics of the Subject: Spirituality, Parrhesia, and Truth Chapter 4: The Government of the Self and Others: Truth Telling and the Real of Philosophy in Plato’s Seventh Letter and Beyond Chapter 5: The Courage of Truth: Philosophical Life in the Face of Death Works Cited Index

A convincing and nuanced study of Foucault’s engagement with classical texts ... For readers of Foucault’s late courses this is an invaluable companion.