| Preface | |
| Ch. I | Imploding the Canon: The Reform of Education and the War over Culture | 3 |
| Ch. II | Corrupting Socrates | 32 |
| Ch. III | The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory | 64 |
| Ch. IV | Democratic Accountability and Socratic Dialectic | 91 |
| Ch. V | When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens | 109 |
| Ch. VI | Antigone and the Languages of Politics | 139 |
| Ch. VII | Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge | 179 |
| Ch. VIII | The Gorgias, Socratic Dialectic, and the Education of Democratic Citizens | 202 |
| Ch. IX | The Protagoras and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens | 229 |
| Index | 267 |
