A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe Book

Foreword by Kurt Raaflaub List of Maps List of Figures
PART I. The Question of Beginnings
1. A Most Unusual Case I: The Appropriation of Antiquity by Medieval and Modern Europe
2. The Challenge of Freedom
3. A Most Unusual Case II: The Early Conditions of the Formation of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
4. The Constitution of Europe as a Continent
5. Greeks and Persians I: Freedom and Rule-Atossa's Dream
6. Europe and Asia in Antiquity
7. Antiquity as European Prehistory or Early History

PART II. The Rise of the World of Poleis
8. A Post-Mycenaean New Beginning: Origins of Greek Particularity
9. The Dawn of an Era: The Eighth Century BC
10. The Greeks and the Orient
11. Colonization
12. Homer and Hesiod
13. Gods and Priests
14. Crisis and Consolidation: The Seventh and Sixth Centuries BC
15. Polis Individualism and the Pan-Hellenic Context: The Agonistic Impulse
16. The Diversity of the Poleis: Sparta and Other Cities
17. The Wars
18 Polis Structure: Public Sphere and Institutions
19. Crisis: Aristocratic Rivalries, Social Conflict, Tyrannies
20. Lyric Poetry, the Symposium, and a Reorientation towards Virtue
21. The Beginnings of Political Thought: The 'Middling Class'
22. The Beginnings of Philosophy and Science
23. Athens's Path towards Isonomia and its Rise to Power
24. The Aegean World around 500 bc: Greeks and Persians Outlook Epilogue Glossary Sources and Further Reading Index