Introduction
Impiety trials against philosophers and Sophists
The Plague, Pericles and the Peloponnesian War
Other prosecutions for impiety
The mutilation of the Herms and the profanation of the Mysteries: religious and political implications
Tradition and innovation: the new gods
Building for the gods: sacred architecture during the Peloponnesian War
The Arginusae trial
The trial of Socrates: an overview