Introduction / Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner
Part I. The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective
Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye : Civilizational and Political Transformations / Johann P. Arnason
Transformations of Democracy : Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective / Peter Wagner
Part II. Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political
To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere / Egon Flaig
Democracy and Dissent : The Case of Comedy / Lucio Bertelli
Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece / Jonas Grethlein
Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens / Harvey Yunis
Law and Democracy in Classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni
Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement / Ryan Balot
Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens / Elizabeth Meyer
Part III. Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society
The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke
The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé
Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne
Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle
Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments
Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon) : Equality and "the Political" in the Evolution of Greek Democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub
Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong
The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner.