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b. Its choice of a leader: ostracism, 60.

4. The economic basis of democracy, 61.

a. The place of slavery: simply a form of capital, 61.

b. The object of indemnities: political equality, 64.

V. THE EMPIRE 65-78

1. The advantages of sea power, 66.

2. The demands of the fleet, 68.

3. The complaints made against Athens, 70.

a. Misuse of tribute money, 71.

b. Misuse of judicial authority, 72.

c. Seizure of land in subject territory, 73.

d. Extirpation of the best, 74.

4. The destruction of the empire, 75.

III. FROM SPARTA TO ARISTOTLE

I. SPARTA IN HISTORY 79-97

1. Crushing of early Spartan culture, 81.

2. The military life of the Spartans, 84.

3. The effect of the Perioec ring-wall, 85, 88.

a. The Peloponnesian league: 550-370 B.C., 88.

b. The Hellenic league: 405-395 B.C., 89.

4. The hollowness of the Spartan hegemony, 90-95.

a. Cinadon, 91.

5. The age of reaction, 96, 97.

a. Urban particularism, 96.

b. The ancestral constitution, 96.

II. SPARTA AND ATHENS IN POLITICAL THEORY 97-114

1. Plato, 99-107.

a. Neglect of History, 99.

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