Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Scene: Aristotle and Menander -- 2. Menander and Theophrastus on Character(s)? -- 3. The Structure of the Book and the Method of Enquiry -- Chapter 1. Setting the Broader Background -- 1. Understanding, Ethics and Ancient Philosophy -- 2. Understanding, Ethics and Aesthetic Pleasure -- Chapter 2. Degrees of Understanding: Menander and Aristotle on How We Understand -- 1. Epitrepontes: Recognition and Understanding -- 2. Notes on Recognition in Euripides' Electra -- 3. Aristotle: Grasping the Sense -- 3.1. Understanding and Missing Understanding -- 3.2. Grasping and Missing the Grasp -- 4. Conclusions -- Chapter 3. The Misleading Power of Perceptions and Emotions -- 1. "Is This Plausible?" (Men. Sam. 216) -- 1.1. Demeas -- 1.2. Moschion -- 2. Aristotle on the Vulnerability of Correct (Ethical) Reasoning -- 2.1. Thinking about One's Own Perceptions -- 2.2. Acting on the Basis of One's Own Perceptions -- 3. Conclusions -- Chapter 4. Chance, Ignorance and Human Agency -- 1. A Play of Chance / A Chance to Play -- 1.1. Perikeiromene -- 1.1.1. The Prologue of Agnoia -- 1.1.2. Polemon and Moschion -- 1.2. Aspis -- 1.2.1. The Prologue of Tychē -- 1.2.2. Smikrines and Daos -- 1.3. Divine Prologue Speakers and Related Matters -- 2. Aristotle on Chance, Ignorance and Rational Agents -- 2.1. Prologues and Likelihood -- 2.2. Aristotle, Tychē and Agnoia -- 2.2.1. Chance and Mere Chance -- 2.2.2. Voluntary, Non-Voluntary, Involuntary Actions -- 3. Conclusions -- Chapter 5. Character, Ethics and Human Relationships: Aristotle and Menander on How We Learn to Be Good and How We Become Bad -- 1. Dyscolos: The Young Man and the Old Man -- 1.2. Other Examples of Young Men and Old Men -- 2. Aristotle on the Individual and His Community -- 2.1. Listening and Watching Friends.

2.2. Talking and Living with Friends -- 3. Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Ancient Sources.