Introduction

[Part 1:] Three's Company. National Hero ; State of War ; The Persian Mule

[Part 2:] The Invention of Democracy. The Shaking-Off ; Friend of the Poor ; Charioteers of the Soul ; Inventing Democracy

[Part 3:] The Persian Threat. Eastern Raiders ; Fox as Hedgehog ; Invasion ; "The Acts of Idiots" ; "O Divine Salamis"

[Part 4:] The Empire Builders. League of Nations ; The Falling-Out ; The Kindly Ones ; "Crowned with Violets"

[Part 5:] The Great War. The Prisoners on the Island ; The Man Who Knew Nothing ; Downfall ; The End of Democracy?

[Part 6:] A Long Farewell. Sparta's Turn ; Chaeronea

"Fatal to Liberty" ; Afterword

"A God-forsaken Hole."