| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Contributors | |
| Introduction: Democracies Ancient and Modern | 3 |
| The Strong Principle of Equality and the Archaic Origins of Greek Democracy | 19 |
| Shares and Rights: "Citizenship" Greek Style and American Style | 49 |
| Transgression, Equality, and Voice | 63 |
| The Ancient Athenian and the Modern Liberal View of Liberty as a Democratic Ideal | 91 |
| Law, Freedom, and the Concept of Citizens' Rights in Democratic Athens | 105 |
| Demos versus "We, the People": Freedom and Democracy Ancient and Modern | 121 |
| Equalities and Inequalities in Athenian Democracy | 139 |
| Comparatively Equal | 175 |
| Athenian Equality: A Constant Surrounded by Flux | 187 |
| Resistance to Change in the Law at Athens | 203 |
| Civil Society, Dionysiac Festival, and the Athenian Democracy | 217 |
| Oath Ritual and the Male Community at Athens | 227 |
| Democratic Contradictions and the Synoptic Illusion of Euripides' Ion | 249 |
| Aristotle and the Idea of Liberal Education | 271 |
| Hoplites into Democrats: The Changing Ideology of Athenian Infantry | 289 |
| The Athenian Trireme, School of Democracy | 313 |
| Reading Democracy: "Socratic" Dialogues and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens | 327 |
| Misreading Democracy: Peter Euben and the Gorgias | 361 |
| Ancient Greek Democracy and the Modern Knowledge-Based Organization: Reflections on the Ideology of Two Revolutions | 377 |
| Bibliography | 401 |
| Index | 449 |
