Translation of: Entstehung des Politischen bei den Griechen
Includes bibliographical references
From Politikos to the modern concept of the political -- Political in ancient Greece -- Emergence of the trend toward isonomy -- Cleisthenes and the institutionalizing of the civic presence in Athens -- Eumenides of Aeschylus and the rise of the political -- Political identity of the Athenians and the workings of Periclean democracy -- Changing politicosocial concepts in the fifth century B.C. -- Ancient equivalent of the concept of progress