Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and index.

Part 1 The stillbirth of freedom in the non-western world: primitive beginnings; for the creation of eyes - why freedom failed in the non-western world. Part 2 The Greek construction of freedom: the Greek origins of freedom; the emergence of slave society and civic freedom; the Persian wars and the creation of organic (sovereignal) freedom; slavery, empire, and the periclean fusion; a woman's song - the female force and the ideology; of freedom in Greek tragedy and society; fission and diffusion - class and the elements of freedom in the late 5th century and beyond; the outer intellectual response; the turn to inner freedom; the intellectual response in the Hellenistic and early Roman world. Part 3 Rome and the universalization of freedom: freedom and class conflict in republican Rome; the triumph of the Roman freedman - personal liberty among the urban masses of the early empire; the Augustan compromise - sovereignal freedom in defense of personal liberty; freedom, stoicism, and the Roman mind. Part 4 Christianity and the institutionalization of freedom: Jesus and the Jesus movement; between Jesus and Paul; Paul and his world - a community of urban freedmen; Paul and the freedom of mankind. Part 5 The medieval reconstruction of freedom: freedom and servitude in the middle ages; medieval renditions of the chord of freedom; freedom in the religious and secular thought of the middle ages.

Library has v.1 only