<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Dear all, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">We are excited to announce that the Critical Antiquities Workshop will return for August-December 2024. Please find the attached flyer detailing the program and descriptions of the upcoming talks. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">For our first workshop, we are thrilled to begin with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Melissa Lane</b> (Princeton University) as she launches her book<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Princeton UP, 2023).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Anthony Hooper<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Wollongong) and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Demetra Kasimis</b> (Cambridge University) will be discussants for the launch. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; 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font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The event will take place on Zoom on Monday,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>August 5</b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit;">11:00pm-12:30am (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane time). </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Here is the time in other locations:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">Los Angeles/Vancouver: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Monday, August 5, 6:00am-7:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Mexico City: Monday, August 5, 7:00am-8:30am <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">Chicago: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Monday, August 5, 8:00am-9:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">New York: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Monday, August 5, 9:00am-10:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Monday, August 5, 10:00am-11:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Dublin/Belfast/London: Monday, August 5, 2:00pm-3:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Paris/Berlin/Rome: Monday, August 5, 3:00pm-4:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: Monday, August 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">Beijing/Singapore/Perth: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Monday, August 5, 9:00pm-10:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">Tokyo: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Monday, August 5, 10:00pm-11:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">Darwin/Adelaide: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Monday, August 5, 10:30pm-12:00pm</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">To register</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list to receive Zoom links and CAN announcements: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rf4tCVARKgC0YyJBBSGTLFa?domain=signup.e2ma.net/" target="_blank" title="https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1930251/1916146/" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><span style="color: black; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1930251/1916146/</span></a><span style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;">Two sample chapters of the book<b> </b>will be circulated to registrants prior to the talk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Here is the abstract:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 28pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 20, 19);">Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. In doing so, Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. Adopting a longstanding Greek expectation that a ruler should serve the good of the ruled, Plato’s major political dialogues—the Republic, the Statesman, and Laws—explore how different kinds of rule might best serve that good. With this book, Lane offers the first account of the clearly marked vocabulary of offices at the heart of all three of these dialogues, explaining how such offices fit within the broader organization and theorizing of rule. Lane argues that taking Plato’s interest in rule and office seriously reveals tyranny as ultimately a kind of anarchy, lacking the order as well as the purpose of rule. When we think of tyranny in this way, we see how Plato invokes rule and office as underpinning freedom and friendship as political values, and how Greek slavery shaped Plato’s account of freedom. Reading Plato both in the Greek context and in dialogue with contemporary thinkers, Lane argues that rule and office belong at the center of Platonic, Greek, and contemporary political thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">We hope to see you there, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Callista, on behalf of Tristan and Ben. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Callista Sheridan </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Critical Antiquities Network </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/1txvCWLVXkUzVqE33ix1Ifw?domain=criticalantiquities.org/" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;">criticalantiquities.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>