Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Democracy and Tragedy -- Tragedy's multivocal form: The lessons for democracy today -- A multivocal contribution to contemporary democratic debates -- What this book does not do -- Structure of this book -- Chapter 1 Democracy and Tragedy in Ancient Athens -- Democracy as self-institution and self-limitation in ancient Athens -- Being as chaos: Tragedy's democratic intervention -- Chapter 2 A Multivocal Democracy: The Democratic Impact of Tragedy's Multivocal Form in Ancient Athens and Today -- The democratic impact of tragedy's multivocal form in Athens -- Tragedy's political decline -- Reviving the democratic impact of tragedy's multivocal form today -- Chapter 3 Dramatizing Democracy: Introducing Aeschylus' Suppliants -- Aeschylus, the democrat -- Aeschylean tragedy and democracy -- Chapter 4 Marginal Women, Marginalized Stories: Democracy and the Politics of Fifth-Century Supplication -- Plot -- Characters -- Language -- The multivocal form of Aeschylus' Suppliants: A dramatic representation of Athens' democracy -- Order/Disorder -- Reality/Fiction -- Chapter 5 Civilization and Violence: A New Vision for Contemporary Democracy -- Plot -- Characters -- Language -- The multivocal form of Mee's Big Love: A dramatic representation of civilization and violence -- Order/Disorder -- Reality/Fiction -- Chapter 6 Towards a Multivocal Democracy -- A multivocal democracy today -- Democracy is predicated on both the presence of order and disorder -- Democracy understands the dichotomy between reality and fiction fluidly -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Bibliography -- Index.