An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek (Paperback)

Authors' note; Preface; List of abbreviations; Preliminaries; 1. The insurance fraud; 2. The glorious past; 3. Athens and Sparta; 4. Lawlessness in Athenian life; 5. 'Socrates corrupts the young'; 6. Socrates and intellectual enquiry; 7. Aristophanes' Birds; 8. Aristophanes' Wasps; 9. Aristophanes' Lysistrata; 10. Aristophanes' Akharnians; 11. Neaira as slave; 12. Neaira as married woman; 13. Guarding a woman's purity; 14. Alkestis in Euripides' play; 15. Official justice: ships, state and individuals; 16. Private justice: trouble down at the farm; 17. How Zeus gave justice to men; 18. The story of Adrastos; 19. Odysseus and Nausikaa.