I. The Ancient Concept of Progress . . 1
II. The Prometheus Vinctus and the Progress of Scholarship . . 26
III. Morals and Politics in the Oresteia . . 45
IV. On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex . . 64
V. Euripides the Irrationalist . . 106
VI. The Sophistic Movement and the Failure of Greek Liberalism . . 92
VII. Plato and the Irrational . . 106
VIII. Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus . . 126
IX. The Religion of the Ordinary Man in Classical Greece . . 140 
X. Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity . . 156

Index of Passages Discussed . . 211
General Index . . 212