Includes bibliographical references (p. [557]-619) and index.

GENERAL -- Introduction: Re-writing the History of Ancient Political Thought / Ryan Balot -- What is Politics in the Ancient World? / Dean Hammer -- Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean Context / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Civic Ideology and Citizenship / P.J. Rhodes -- Political Action and Rational Choice in Classical Greek Political Theory / Josiah Ober -- Imperial Ideologies, Citizenship Myths, and Legal Disputes in Classical Athens and Republican Rome / Craige B. Champion -- Gendered Politics, or the Self-Praise of Andres Agathoi / Giulia Sissa -- The Religious Contexts of Ancient Political Thought / Robin Osborne -- DEMOCRACIES AND REPUBLICS -- Democracy Ancient and Modern / Peter Liddel -- "Rights," Individuals, and Communities in Ancient Greece / Paul Cartledge and Matt Edge -- Personal Freedoms in Greek Democracies, Republican Rome, and Modern Liberal States / Robert W. Wallace -- The Mixed Constitution in Greek Thought / David E. Hahm -- Republican Virtues / Malcolm Schofield -- Roman Democracy? / W. Jeffrey Tatum -- THE VIRTUES AND VICES OF ONE-MAN RULE -- The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny / Sara Forsdyke -- Hellenistic Monarchy in Theory and Practice / Arthur M. Eckstein -- The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World / Carlos F. Noreña -- THE PASSIONS OF ANCIENT POLITICS
Political Animals: Pathetic Animals / Giulia Sissa -- Anger, Eros, and Other Political Passions in Ancient Greek Thought / Paul W. Ludwig -- Some Passionate Performances in Late Republican Rome / Robert A. Kaster -- THE ATHENS OF SOCRATES, PLATO, AND ARISTOTLE -- The Trial and Death of Socrates / Debra Nails -- The Politics of Plato's Socrates / Rachana Kamtekar -- Freedom, Tyranny, and the Political Man: Plato's Republic and Gorgias, A Study in Contrasts / Arlene W. Saxonhouse -- Plato on the Sovereignty of Law / Zena Hitz -- "Naturalism" in Aristotle's Political Philosophy / Timothy Chappell -- The Ethics of Aristotle's Politics / David Depew -- CONSTRUCTING POLITICAL NARRATIVE -- Imitating Virtue and Avoiding Vice: Ethical Functions of Biography, History, and Philosophy / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Greek Drama and Political Thought / John Gibert -- Character in Politics / Philip A. Stadter -- ANTI-POLITICS -- Cosmopolitan Traditions / David Konstan -- False Idles: The Politics of the "Quiet Life" in Greek and Roman Antiquity / Eric Brown -- Citizenship and Signs: Rethinking Augustine on the Two Cities / Todd Breyfogle -- RECEPTIONS -- Republicanism: Ancient, Medieval, and Beyond / Christopher Nadon -- Twentieth-Century Revivals of Ancient Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss / Catherine H. Zuckert.