Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Climbing the hill of Ares
- Classical Athenian democracy and democracy today
- Historical legacies: moral authority and the useable past
- Culture, thin coherence, and the persistence of politics
- Quasi rights: participatory citizenship and negative liberties
- The Athenian debate over civic education
- Living freely as a slave of the law: why Socrates lives in Athens
- Social science history, cultural history and the amnesty of 403 B.C.
- Greek Horoi: artifactual texts and the contingency of meaning
- Tryant-killing as therapeutic conflict: a political debate in images and texts.