| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Classical Greece | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | The Athenian Experiment | 25 |
| Ch. 3 | The First Attacks on Athenian Democracy | 48 |
| Ch. 4 | Democracy and the Philosophers | 71 |
| Pt. 2 | Playing With the Past | 93 |
| Ch. 5 | Roman Adaptations | 97 |
| Ch. 6 | Recovering the Greeks | 119 |
| Ch. 7 | Monarchists and Republicans | 137 |
| Ch. 8 | The Debate over Athens and Sparta | 156 |
| Ch. 9 | Athenian Democracy in the Age of Revolutions | 175 |
| Ch. 10 | A Shift in the Sands | 208 |
| Pt. 3 | Modern Transformations | 227 |
| Ch. 11 | The Turning of the Tide | 229 |
| Ch. 12 | Athenians and Others | 256 |
| Ch. 13 | Epilogue: The Old and the New | 291 |
| Notes | 315 |
| Selected Bibliography | 379 |
| Index | 393 |
