CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: THE PRELIMINARIES -- CHAPTER ONE What Is Punishment? -- Introduction -- "Revenge" versus "Punishment": Rereading the Oresteia -- Studying Punishment as Authority: Reading the Prometheus Bound -- Précis -- CHAPTER TWO Institutional Context -- Introduction -- Penal Institutions and Democratic Power -- The Lay Prosecutor and the Parameters of Judgment -- CHAPTER THREE Cultural Context -- Anger/Orge -- The Agon and Honor -- Reciprocity -- Social Memory, Social Knowledge -- Language -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FOUR Punishment and Its Tragic Problems -- The Mythic Imaginary -- Method -- Disease and Remedy -- Power, Tyranny, and Law -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: THE PROCESS OF PUNISHING -- CHAPTER FIVE Initiation, Part One -- Knowledge, Power, Action -- Investigation -- Initiation: Metics, Proxenoi, and Xenoi -- Initiation: Slaves -- Initiation: Women -- CHAPTER SIX Initiation, Part Two -- The Male Citizen Prosecutor -- Back to the Bees and Wasps Again -- The Household: Women and Men Together -- City as Collective -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Negotiation of Desert, Part One -- The Magic of Speech -- Pity and Anger -- The First Norm of Public Agency: Deserving to Punish and Dispelling Charges of Sycophancy -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Negotiation of Desert, Part Two -- Introduction -- The Second Norm of Public Agency: Using Social Memory and Law -- The Rule of Judgment versus the Rule of Law -- The Rule of Law in Plato and Aristotle -- The Third Norm of Public Agency: Shaping the Democratic Community -- CHAPTER NINE Execution -- War, Peace, and the Formalism of Punishment -- The Details: Punishments and Their Executors -- Two Forms of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting -- The Symbolism of Remembering and Forgetting -- War and Peace, the Body and Silence -- Punishments of Reintegration.

Punishments that Redefine the "Whole" Community -- The Amnesty -- PART THREE: INTERVENTIONS IN THE CONVERSATION -- CHAPTER TEN Plato's Paradigm Shifts -- The Symbol of Leontios -- Reform over Reciprocity -- The Erasure of Orge -- Undoing the Athenian "Principle of the Public": The Republic -- The Just City and the Power of the Symbol -- The Incurables and the Necessity for Anger/Orge in the Just City of the Laws -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Aristotle's Compromises -- On Justice and Desert -- EPILOGUE: The Reform of Prometheus and Promethean Rebellion -- APPENDIXES -- A. The Number of Magistrates in Athens -- B. The Nature and Scope of Arbitration in Athens -- C. The Relative Frequency of Penal Words within Each Orator -- D. Further Argument about the Decree of Cannonus -- E. Catalog of Cases of Punishing (or Attempts at Punishing) in Tragedy -- ENDNOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.