Table of Contents:
  • The puzzle of classical efflorescence
  • Ants around a pond : an ecology of city-states
  • Political animals : a theory of decentralized cooperation
  • Wealthy Hellas : measuring efflorescence
  • Explaining Hellas' wealth
  • Citizens and specialization, to 550 BCE
  • From tyranny to democracy, 550-465 BCE
  • Golden age of empire, 478-404 BCE
  • Disorder and growth, 403-340 BCE
  • Political fall, 359-334 BCE
  • Creative destruction and immortality
  • Appendix I: Regions of the Greek world
  • Appendix II: King, City, Elite game / Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast
  • Images and Tables
  • Maps.