From the Book - First edition
Three's company. National hero ; State of war ; The Persian mule
The invention of democracy. The shaking-off ; A friend of the poor ; Charioteers of the soul ; Inventing democracy
The Persian threat. Eastern raiders ; Fox as hedgehog ; Invasion ; "The acts of idiots" ; "O divine Salamis"
The empire builders. League of Nations ; The falling out ; The kindly ones ; "Crowned with violets"
The Great War. The prisoners on the island ; The man who knew nothing ; Downfall ; The end of democracy?
A long farewell. Sparta's turn ; Chaeronea : "fatal to liberty" ; Afterword : "a God-forsaken hole"
