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Cover; GREEK POLITICAL THEORY: Plato and his Predecessors; Copyright; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; CHAPTER I The Greek Theory of the State; CHAPTER II The Greek State; THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GREEK STATE; CITY-STATES AND TRIBAL STATES; THE GREEK STATE AND SLAVERY; THE GREEK STATE AND REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS; THE GREEK STATE AND EDUCATION; CHAPTER III Political Thought before the Sophists; FROM HOMER TO SOLON; PYTHAGOREANS AND IONIANS; THE TRANSITION FROM THE PHYSICISTS TO THE HUMANISTS; CHAPTER IV The Political Theory of the Sophists.

1. The Greek theory of the state -- 2. The Greek state -- 3. Political thought before the Sophists -- 4. The political theory of the Sophists -- 5. Socrates and the minor Socratics -- 6. Plato and the Platonic dialogue -- 7. The earlier dialogues of Plato -- 8. The Republic and its theory of justice -- 9. The Republic and its theory of education -- 10. The Republic and its theory of communism -- 11. Plato and the states of Greece -- 12. The Politicus -- 13. The Laws and its general theory -- 14. The system of social relations in the Laws -- 15. The system of government in the Laws -- 16. The Laws and its theory of law -- 17. The theory of education in the Laws.

Much has been written about the interpretation of Plato in the last thirty years. Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the left, and a prophet of Socialism, he has lately been interpreted as a revolutionary of the Right and a forerunner of Fascism. In this book Plato appears as himself - a revolutionary indeed, and even an authoritarian, but a revolutionary of the pure idea of the Good, and an authoritarian of the pure reason, unattached either to the Right or the Left.