Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Chapter I. Imploding the Canon: The Reform of Education and the War over Culture 1
5. Chapter II. Corrupting Socrates 32
6. Chapter III. The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory 64
7. Chapter IV. Democratic Accountability and Socratic Dialectic 91
8. Chapter V. When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens 109
9. Chapter VI. Antigone and the Languages of Politics 139
10. Chapter VII. Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge 179
11. Chapter VIII. The Gorgias, Socratic Dialectic, and the Education of Democratic Citizens 202
12. Chapter IX. The Protagoras and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens 229
13. Index 267