Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Marxism and the Classics 1
5. 1. How Conservative Is the Iliad? 43
6. 2. Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey 92
7. 3. Historicizing Pindar: Pythian 10 141
8. 4. Aeschylus' Oresteia: Dialectical Inheritance 185
9. 5. Sophokles' Philoktetes and the Teachings of the Sophists: A Counteroffensive 266
10. 6. Plato's Solution to the Ideological Crisis of the Greek Aristocracy 331
11. Afterword 370
12. References 375
13. Index 407