In pertinent part, Salkever manages to show the intersection between Plato and Aristotle on issues long thought to divide them including the value and virtuous potentiality of women and the danger of viewing virility as the form of virtuosity. His work also includes a thoughtful and critical reassessment of Hannah Arendt's take on Aristotle's politics. The research is thorough, the writing persuasive and impassioned. A very important book for feminist philosophers, social and virtue ethicists, and those interested to view Aristotle's surprisingly liberative ideology of the state.