Robert C. Bartlett serves as the Behrakis Professor in Hellenic Political Studies at Boston College. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protago...view moreRobert C. Bartlett serves as the Behrakis Professor in Hellenic Political Studies at Boston College. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates (2016) and an edition of Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric (2019), both published by the University of Chicago Press. His principal area of research is classical political philosophy. In conjunction with Aspen Brinton, he taught an Enduring Question seminar titled “Justice and War: The Ancients,” which was largely devoted to a study of Thucydides’ War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians.view less