Table of Contents

	Preface	p. ix
	Introduction the Meaning of Freedom	p. 1
	the Stillbirth of Freedom in the Non-Western World	p. 7
	Primitive Beginnings	p. 9
	for the Creation of Eyes: Why Freedom Failed in the Non-Western World	p. 20
	the Greek Construction of Freedom	p. 45
	the Greek Origins of Freedom	p. 47
	the Emergence of Slave Society and Civic Freedom	p. 64
	the Persian Wars and the Creation of Organic (sovereignal) Freedom	p. 82
		p. 95
	a Woman's Song: the Female Force and the Ideology of Freedom in Greek Tragedy and Society	p. 106
	Fission and Diffusion: Class and the Elements of Freedom in the Late Fifth Century and Beyond	p. 133
		p. 146
	the Turn to Inner Freedom	p. 165
	the Intellectual Response in the Hellenistic and Early Roman World	p. 181
	Rome and the Universalization of Freedom	p. 201
	Freedom and Class Conflict in Republican Rome	p. 203
	the Triumph of the Roman Freedman: Personal Liberty Among the Urban Masses of the Early Empire	p. 227
	the Augustan Compromise: Sovereignal Freedom in Defense of Personal Liberty	p. 258
	Freedom, Stoicism, and the Roman Mind	p. 264
	Christianity and the Institutionalization of Freedom	p. 291
	Jesus and the Jesus Movement	p. 293
	Between Jesus and Paul	p. 304
	Paul and His World: a Community of Urban Freedmen	p. 316
	Paul and the Freedom of Mankind	p. 325
	the Medieval Reconstruction of Freedom	p. 345
	Freedom and Servitude in the Middle Ages	p. 347
	Medieval Renditions of the Chord of Freedom	p. 363
	Freedom in the Religious and Secular Thought of the Middle Ages	p. 376
	Coda	p. 402
	Notes	p. 407
	Index	p. 471

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