1) The prisoner’s dilemma and theories on social congregation

2) Society as result of necessity: “Egyptian archaeology”, Democritus and Protagoras

3) Political community as an end: Aristotelian teleology and political nature

4) City-state and its features: city identic with the citizen-body, society identic with the state

5) City-state and particularism

6) Friendship and strife: centripetal and centrifugal forces in the city-state

7) Moral codes of competitive and cooperative values in ancient Greece

8) Pillars of social discrimination: nobility, wealth, and moral excellence

9) Social analysis: social “class”, “order”, and “status”

10) Economic and social developments in ancient Greece: “household economy”, monetization and “capitalism”

11) Social discrimination in Greek sources: history of concepts and the evolution of social nomenclature

12) Society and polities, civil strife and political stability in the city-state

13) Separatism and cosmopolitism in ancient Greek political theory

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