Agon, logos, polis

Contents: Acknowledgements — Introduction Oswyn Murray: Gnosis and Tradition Louis A. Ruprecht: Why the Greeks? Christian Meier: The Greeks: The Political Revolution in World History Kurt A. Raaflaub: Political Thought, Civic Responsibility, and the Greek Polis Jean-Pierre Vernant: Forms of Belief and Rationality in Greece Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Beasts, Humans and Gods: The Greek View Cornelius Castoriades: Aeschylean Anthropogony and Sophoclean Self-Creation of Anthropos Johann P. Arnason: Autonomy and Axiality: Comparative Perspectives on the Greek Breakthrough Peter Murphy: Architectonics Vassilis Lambropoulos: On the Notion of the Tragedy of Culture