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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: How to Do Greek Political Thought | |
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| Archaic Greece and the Centrality of Justice | |
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| Achilles, Agamemnon, and Fair Distribution | |
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| Justice as �Distinctively Human� | |
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| Institutions and Values of the Early Polis | |
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| What is Justice? The Voice of the Oppressed and the Origins of Political Thought | |
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| The Egalitarian Response | |
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| The Elitist Response | |
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| Case Study: Sparta and the Politics of �Courage� | |
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| A Second Case Study: Archaic Athens and the Search for Justice | |
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| Democratic Political Thinking at Athens | |
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| Evidence and Sources | |
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| Democracy Ancient and Modern | |
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| Democratic Conceptions of Freedom | |
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| Democratic Deliberation | |
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| Courage, Trust, and Leadership | |
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| Democratic Political Thought outside Athens? | |
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| Protagorean Arguments for Democracy | |
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| Democratic Conceptions of Equality | |
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| Justice and the Demos | |
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| Criticizing Democracy in Late Fifth-Century Athens | |
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| Mapping out the Problem: The �Old Oligarch� | |
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| Modern and Ancient Quandaries | |
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| Nomos and Phusis | |
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| The Challenge of Thrasymachus and Callicles | |
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| Thucydidean Imperialists Revisit Nomos and Phusis | |
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| Socrates and Nomos | |
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| Logos and Ergon | |
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| Democratic Epistemology and Relativism | |
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| Democratic Epistemology and Untrustworthy Rhetoric � or, Where Does the Truth Lie? | |
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| Socrates and Athens | |
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| Imperialism | |
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| Aristotle Analyzes Imperialism | |
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| Definitions and History | |
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| Monarchic Imperialism | |
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| Natural Superiority? | |
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| Debating Athenian Imperialism | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Fourth Century Revisions | |
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| The ancestral republican �solutions� | |
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| The monarchic �solution� | |
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| Plato�s �solutions� | |
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| Criticizing Contemporary Politics | |
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| Plato on Rhetoric and Order in the Gorgias | |
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| The Priority of Reason in City and Soul: Plato�s Republic | |
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| Educating Citizens in the Classical Context | |
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| Politics and Ethics | |
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| Philosophical Rulers | |
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| Platonic Political Philosophy after the Republic | |
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| Aristotle�s Political Thought | |
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| Civic Conflict, Emotion, and Injustice: Observing the Polis as It Is | |
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| Exploring What Ought To Be: Aristotle�s Naturalism | |
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| Aristotle on the Good Life | |
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| Nature in the Politics | |
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| Aristotle on Slavery | |
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| Polis and Citizenship in General | |
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| Aristotle�s Best Polis | |
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| Political Possibilities in Existing Cities | |
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| The Best Constitution in Relation to Existing Conditions | |
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| Classification of Constitutions | |
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| The Power of the Masses | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Hellenistic Political Thought | |
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| Theory of Kingship | |
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| The Traditional Schools | |
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| New Directions: Cynics, Stoics, and Epicureans | |
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| The Politics of Cynicism? | |
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| Stoicism and Epicureanism | |
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| Epilogue: The Question of Politics | |
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| Bibliographic Essay | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |