Introduction Stephen Salkever; 1. Homer and political thought Dean Hammer; 2. Foundings vs. constitutions: ancient tragedy and the origins of political community Arlene W. Saxonhouse; 3. Most favored status in Herodotus and Thucydides: recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon and Pericles Norma Thompson; 4. Thucydides and political thought Gerald Mara; 5. 'This way of life, this contest': rethinking Socratic citizenship Susan Bickford; 6. The political drama of Plato's Republic David Roochnik; 7. Practical Plato Catherine H. Zuckert; 8. Reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a single course of lectures: rhetoric, politics, and philosophy Stephen Salkever; 9. Lived excellence in Aristotle's Constitution of Athens: why the Encomium of Theramenes matters Jill Frank and S. Sara Monoson; 10. The virtue politics of democratic Athens Ryan K. Balot; 11. Origins of rights in ancient political thought Fred D. Miller, Jr.; 12. The emergence of natural law and the Cosmopolis Eric Brown.