| Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction: Athenian Democracy and the History of Ideologies | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Models and Paradigms in Ancient History | 13 |
| Ch. 3 | Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens | 18 |
| Ch. 4 | The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy | 32 |
| Ch. 5 | The Rules of War in Classical Greece | 53 |
| Ch. 6 | Thucydides, Pericles, and the Strategy of Defense | 72 |
| Ch. 7 | Power and Oratory in Democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias | 86 |
| Ch. 8 | The Nature of Athenian Democracy | 107 |
| Ch. 9 | The Athenians and Their Democracy | 123 |
| Ch. 10 | How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens | 140 |
| Ch. 11 | The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and the Athenian Social Contract | 161 |
| Bibliography | 189 |
| Index | 205 |
