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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and note on text; Introduction: methodand politics in Plato's Statesman; Part I. Method: 1. Introduction; 2. TheSophist's use of example and division; 3. The Statesman's use of example anddivision; 4. The analysis of example; 5. Conclusions; Part II. The Story as aFulcrum of the Dialogue: 6. Introduction: story-telling and self-criticism;7. Telling the story; 8. Criticising the story; Part III. Politics: 9.Introduction; 10. Rivalry revisited: subordination of the arts to the masteryof the kairos; 11. Rivalry renewed: the challenge and subordination of law;12. Political knowledge as weaving; 13. Conclusions; Select bibliography;General index; Index locorum.