Prologue. Lost in Translation? Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy I -- ACT I. Sources, Ancient and Modern ; The Emergence of the Polis/Politics/the Political: Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy II -- ACT II. The Emergence of Greek Democracy I: Archaic Greece ; The Emergence of Greek Democracy II: Athens 508/7 ; The Emergence of Greek Democracy III: Athens 507-451/0 ; Greek Democratic Theory? ; Athenian Democracy in Practice c. 450-335 ; Atheenian Democracy; Culture and Society c. 450-335 ; Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis I: Fifth Century ; Athenian Democracy in Court: the Trials of Demos and Socrates and Ctesiphon -- ACT III. Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis II: The Golden Age of Greek Democracy (c.375-350) and its Critics ; Athenian Democracy at Work in the 'Age of Lycurgus' ; The strange death of Classical Greek Democracy: a retrospect -- ACT IV. Hellllenistic 'Democracy'? Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 BCE ; The Roman Republic: a sort of Democracy? ; Democracy Denied: the Roman and Earlrly Byzantine Empires ; Democracy Eclipsed: Late Antiquity, The European Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- ACT V. Democracy Revived : England in the Seventeenth Century and France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth Centuries ; Democracy Reinvented: the United States in the e late eighteenth and early nineteenth Centuries and Tocqueville's America ; Democracy tamed: nineteenth-century Great Britain -- Epilogue. Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects.
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