A companion to Greek and Roman political thought /
Comprises 34 essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, and political science to illuminate Greek and Roman political thought in all its diversity and depth.:.; Offers a broad survey of ancient political thought from Archaic Greece through Late Antiquity.; Approaches ancient poli...
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
[2009]
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I The Broad View
- 1 Introduction: Rethinking the History of Greek and Roman Political Thought
- 2 What is Politics in the Ancient World?
- 3 Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean Context
- 4 Civic Ideology and Citizenship
- 5 Public Action and Rational Choice in Classical Greek Political Theory
- 6 Imperial Ideologies, Citizenship Myths, and Legal Disputes in Classical Athens and Republican Rome
- 7 Gendered Politics, or the Self-Praise of Andres Agathoi
- 8 The Religious Contexts of Ancient Political Thought
- PART II Democracies and Republics
- 9 Democracy Ancient and Modern
- 10 8216;8216;Rights, Individuals, and Communities in Ancient Greece
- 11 Personal Freedom in Greek Democracies, Republican Rome, and Modern Liberal States
- 12 The Mixed Constitution in Greek Thought
- 13 Republican Virtues
- 14 Roman Democracy?
- PART III The Virtues and Vices of One-Man Rule
- 15 The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny
- 16 Hellenistic Monarchy in Theory and Practice
- 17 The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World
- PART IV The Passions of Ancient Politics
- 18 Political Animals: Pathetic Animals
- 19 Anger, Eros, and Other Political Passions in Ancient Greek Thought
- 20 Some Passionate Performances in Late Republican Rome
- PART V The Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- 21 The Trial and Death of Socrates
- 22 The Politics of Platos Socrates
- 23 Freedom, Tyranny, and the Political Man: Platos Republic and Gorgias, a Study in Contrasts
- 24 Plato on the Sovereignty of Law
- 25 8216;8216; Naturalism in Aristotles Political Philosophy
- 26 The Ethics of Aristotles Politics
- PART VI Constructing Political Narrative
- 27 Imitating Virtue and Avoiding Vice: Ethical Functions of Biography, History, and Philosophy
- 28 Greek Drama and Political Thought
- 29 Character in Politics
- PART VII Antipolitics
- 30 Cosmopolitan Traditions
- 31 False Idles: The Politics of the 8216;8216;Quiet Life
- 32 Citizenship and Signs: Rethinking Augustine on the Two Cities
- PART VIII Receptions
- 33 Republicanism: Ancient, Medieval, and Beyond
- 34 Twentieth Century Revivals of Ancient Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss
- References
- Index of Subjects
- Index Locorum.
