Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-331) and index.
Introduction: Athenian history and society in the Age of Preicles / L.J. Samons II -- 1. Democracy and empire / P.J. Rhodes -- 2. Athenian religion in the Age of Pericles / Deborah Boedeker -- 3. The Athenian economy / Lisa Kallet -- 4. Warfare in Athenian society / K.A. Raaflaub -- 5. Art and architecture / Kenneth Lapatin -- 6. Other sorts: slaves, foreigners, and women in Periclean Athens / Cynthia Patterson -- 7. Drama and democracy / Jeffrey Henderson -- 8. The bureaucracy of democracy / J.P. Sickinger -- 9. Plato's Sophists, intellectual history after 450, and Sokrates / Robert W. Wallace -- 10. Democratic theory and practice / R. Sealey -- 11. Athens and Sparta and the coming of the Peloponnesian War / J.E. Lendon -- Conclusion: Pericles and Athens / L.J. Samons