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I. The Ancient Concept of Progress . . 1
II. The Prometheus Vinctus and the Progress of Scholarship . . 26
III. Morals and Politics in the Oresteia . . 45
IV. On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex . . 64
V. Euripides the Irrationalist . . 106
VI. The Sophistic Movement and the Failure of Greek Liberalism . . 92
VII. Plato and the Irrational . . 106
VIII. Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus . . 126
IX. The Religion of the Ordinary Man in Classical Greece . . 140
X. Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity . . 156

Index of Passages Discussed . . 211
General Index . . 212

Abbreviations . . xv

Introduction . . 1
0.1. General
0.2. Aidos and Emotion
0.3. Shame and Guilt
0.4. Shame-Culture and Guilt-Culture

1. Aidos in Homer . . 48
1.1. How Things Look and What People Say
1.2. Aidos in Battle
1.3. Aidos towards Others: The Cement of Homeric Society
1.4. Aidos, Women, and Sex
1.5. Aidos, 'Intelligence', and Excess
1.6. Other Terms
1.7. Conclusion

2. From Hesiod to the Fifth Century . . 147
2.1. Hesiod
2.2. The Homeric Hymns
2.3. Elegiac and Iambic Poets
2.4. Pindar

3. Aeschylus . . 178
3.1. General
3.2. Crucial Passages
3.3. The Rejection of Aides
3.4. Aidos and Sebas

4. Sophocles . . 215
4.1. General
4.2. Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes

5. Euripides . . 265
5.1. Personal Honour and Status
5.2. Friends, Suppliants, and Guests
5.3. Honour, Reputation, Retrospective Shame, and Guilt
5.4. Sexuality and the Sexes
5.5. The Importance of Aidos

6. The Sophists, Plato, and Aristotle . . 343
6.1. Conscience and the Ordinary Athenian
6.2. Protagoras and Moral Education
6.3. Doing Wrong in Secret: Or Shame-Culture versus Guilt-Culture
6.4. Plato
6.5. Aristotle

Epilogue . . 432

References . . 435
Glossary . . 455
Index of Principal Passages . . 459
General Index . . 472