Introduction: Why dissent? Why Athens?
The problem of dissent: criticism as contest
Public speech and brute fact: Thucydides
Essence and enactment: Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae
Justice, knowledge, power: Plato Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Republic
Eloquence, leadership, memory: Isocrates Antidosis and Areopagiticus
Political animals, actual citizens, and the best possible polis: Aristotle Politics
The dialectics of dissent: Criticism as dialogue.
