| Series Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Permissions | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| The Spiritual Universe of the Polis (1962) | 19 |
| Reflections on Philological Practice (1977) | 31 |
| The Origins of Greek Philosophy (1945) | 41 |
| Cleisthenes the Athenian (1964) | 48 |
| Greek Civil War and the Anthropological Representation of the World Turned Upside-down (1995) | 54 |
| Epilogue: Once Again, the Woman, the Virgin, Female Athenians (1981) | 71 |
| The Black Hunter Revisited (1986) | 83 |
| Political Symbolism: The Public Hearth (1951) | 100 |
| Hestia-Hermes: The Religious Expression of Space and Movement in Ancient Greece (1963) | 112 |
| Voyage in Greek Amazonia (1979) | 134 |
| Frontiers and Otherness (1980) | 143 |
| The 'I' of the Inquirer: The Function of Critical Discourse (1987) | 158 |
| Living Statues (1975) | 164 |
| The Spicy Side of Structuralism (1978) | 176 |
| Afterword: Revisiting the Gardens of Adonis (1994) | 183 |
| Social Diversity of Beliefs and Mental Balkanization (1983) | 195 |
| Return to the Mouth of Truth (1996) | 205 |
| Damos in Mycenaean Society (1965) | 225 |
| Inscriptions from Lesbos (1960) | 240 |
| Eulaios: History and Onomastics (1962) | 249 |
| What Tiresias Saw (1982) | 257 |
| The Erotic Images of War (1984) | 276 |
| Misshapen Priapus (1986) | 283 |
| The Venter: Maternal Body, Paternal Right (1987) | 292 |
| Structure and Communication (1976) | 302 |
| The History of the Text of Pindar (1952) | 314 |
| Dionysus (1953) | 324 |
| The Masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae (1986) | 334 |
| The Twelve Gods of the Greeks: Variations on a Theme (1995) | 346 |
| Heroes and Gods (1984) | 355 |
| Against the Rules: A Performative Sacrifice (1978) | 359 |
| A Theology of the Sign in Greece: The Homeric Hymn to Hermes (I), Commentary on Lines 1-181 (1995) | 362 |
| The Mirror and the Loop (1983) | 375 |
| Remarks on Aeschylus's Homer (1995) | 384 |
| Rewriting Homer: Remarks on the Narrative of the Chariot Race of Sophocles' Electra (2000) | 395 |
| Milman Parry and Antoine Meillet (1997) | 409 |
| The Medical Tradition of the Indo-Europeans (1945) | 422 |
| The Work of Emile Benveniste: A Linguistic Analysis of Indo-European Institutions (1971) | 428 |
| Social Symbolism in Greco-Italic Cults (1945) | 439 |
| Thought Takes Form (1993) | 448 |
| Khora (1987) | 464 |
| Bibliography and Abbreviations | 468 |