Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics Book

	Acknowledgements
	Preface: The Sociology of Knowledge and Historical Sociology
	Introduction: The Polis and the "Spirit" of Hellenism	1
1	The End of the Bronze Age	9
2	Dark Age Greece	15
I	Social Structure: The Oikos and the Community	15
II	Norms and Values: The Ethos of the Warrior-Aristocracy	27
3	Archaic Greece	41
I	Social Structure: The Emergence of Polis Society	41
II	Norms and Values: The Articulation of the Polis-Citizen Bond	79
4	Classical Greece	127
I	Slavery and the Material Foundations of Classical Civilization	127
II	The Persian Challenge: Military Triumph and Cultural Affirmation	143
III	The Classical Polis: Institutions and Normative Ideals	151
IV	The Sophists and Sokrates: Critical Rationalism and the Revaluation of Conventional Morality	168
V	Democratic Imperialism and the Expansion of Athenian Power	200
VI	The Peloponnesian War, Civic Factionalism, and the Rupturing of Polis Communalism	213
5	Fourth-Century Greece and the Decline of the Polis	229
I	Hegemonial Rivalries, Class Struggle, and the Deepening Crisis of Social Disorganization	229
II	Mercenaries, Military Monarchs, and the Erosion of Citizen Politics	244
III	Plato and the Dilemmas of Politics and Reason: The Polis as Philosophical Project	261
IV	The Minor Sokratics and the Onset of Normative Individualism	299
V	The Macedonian Conquest and the Suppression of Polis Autonomy	305
VI	Aristotle's Social Philosophy and the Sociology of Power	333
VII	Diogenes and Cynic Antinomianism	368
6	The Hellenistic Age	377
I	Alexander and the Graeco-Macedonian Conquest of the East	377
II	Wars of the Successors and the Consolidation of Imperial Patrimonialism	387
III	Ethics in a New Key: The Retreat from Polis-Citizen Ideals and the Interiorization of Moral Value	400
	Epilogue: On Reductionism, Relativism, and the Sociology of Morals and Philosophy	467
	Glossary of Greek Terms	475
	Notes	477
	Selected Bibliography	543
	Index	563