Preface Acknowledgments 1: A Tragicomic Prelude: Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae Women and Men Public and Private The Ugly and the Beautiful 2: The Pre-Socratic Challenge Thales and Anaximander Heraclitus: The Philosopher Who Laughed The Truth According to Parmenides 3: Women and the Tragic Denial of Difference: Three Versions Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes Sophocles' Antigone Euripides' Ion 4: Socrates and the City of Athens The Education of Euthyphro Melerus and the City's Defence of Unity The Laws Speak 5: Autochthony and Unity in the Menexenus and Statesman Aspasia: The Birth of a City and the Death of Its Citizens The Statesman: A Retelling of Parmenides' Voyage 6: Callipolis: Socrates' Escape from Tragedy The Politics of Interpretation: Poetry and Narration in Callipolis The Politics of "What Is" 7: Plato's Symposium: A Reassessment of Callipolis Aristophanes' Speech and the Net of Hephaestus Socrates' Speech and the Unity of Male and Female Alcibiades' Speech: Marsyas, the Sirens, and the Allure of Socrates 8: The Challenge of the Family Bk. 1: The Family Is Not an Individual Bk. 2: The City Is Not a Family 9: The Study of Politics: Unity Out of Diversity The Unity of Parts The Limits of Unity Epilogue Bibliography Index.