Prefatory: The Eden myth and the science of man -- History as regress: the works and days, the stateman, the laws -- History as progress: The Prometheus bound, the Antigone, Diodorus I -- History as a compromise: The Protagoras, Republic II, Politics I -- The fragments of the Greek anthropologists -- The political theory of Democritus -- In defence of democracy -- Human opinion, pragmatic judgement, and the parliamentary process -- The method and validity of political decision -- Antiphon -- The emasculation of liberalism in Aristotle's ethics -- The rejection of liberalism in Aristotle's politics -- Greek liberalism - the full flower

1. Political science -- Greece -- History
2. Liberalism
3. Political theories