Introduction / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
PART ONE: GEOPOLITICS OF PERFORMANCE
Cretan harmonies and universal morals: Early music and migrations of wisdom in Plato's laws / Mark Griffith
STRICTLY BALLROOM: EGYPTIAN MOUSIKE AND PLATO'S COMPARATIVE POETICS / Ian Rutherford
PART TWO: CONCEPTUALISING CHORALITY:
Choral practices in Plato's laws: itineraries of initiation? / Claude Calame
THE CHORUS OF DIONYSUS: ALCOHOL AND OLD AGE IN THE LAWS / Oswyn Murray
IMAGINING CHORALITY: WONDER, PLATO'S PUPPETS AND MOVING STATUES / Leslie Kurke
BROKEN RHYTHMS IN PLATO'S LAWS: MATERIALISING SOCIAL TIME IN THE KHOROS / Barbara Kowalzig
CHORAL ANTI-AESTHETICS / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
PART THREE: RE-DEFINING GENRE: THE ORPHANED WORD: THE PHARMAKON OF FORGETFULNESS IN PLATO'S LAWS / Andrea Nightingale
PRAISE AND PERFORMANCE IN PLATO'S LAWS / Kathryn Morgan
PAIDES MALAKôN MOUSôN: TRAGEDY IN PLATO'S LAWS / Penelope Murray
THE RHETORIC OF RHAPSODY IN PLATO'S LAWS / Richard Martin
THE UNIDEAL GENRES OF THE IDEAL CITY: COMEDY, THRENODY, AND THE MAKING OF CITIZENS IN PLATO'S LAWS / Marcus Folch
PART FOUR: POETRY AND MUSIC IN THE AFTERLIFE OF THE LAWS: DEREGULATING POETRY: CALLIMACHUS' RESPONSE TO PLATO'S LAWS / Susan Stephens
THE LAWS AND ARISTOXENUS ON THE CRITERIA OF MUSICAL JUDGEMENT / Andrew Barker.