Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge.

• 1. Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens Robin Osborne; 2. The nature and implications of Athens' changed social structure and economy Ben Akrigg; 3. Why the Athenians began to curse Esther Eidinow; 4. A new political world Claire Taylor; 5. Cultural change, space, and the politics of commemoration in Athens Julia Shear; 6. The anatomy of metalepsis: visuality turns around on late fifth-century pots Katharina Lorenz; 7. Constructing the late classical sculptor: style and agency in an age of transition Peter Schultz; 8. The politics of precedence: first 'historians' on first 'thalassocrats' Elizabeth Irwin; 9. The form of Plato's Republic Alex Long; 10. Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae and Plato's Republic Robert Tordoff; 11. Greek tragedy 430–380 BCE Edith Hall; 12. The sound of music: modulations and innovations in drama and dithyramb Amand D'Angour.

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