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Subject(s)

• Political science—Greece—History [Browse]
• Political science—Rome—History [Browse]

Editor

• Balot, Ryan K. (Ryan Krieger), 1969- [Browse]

Series

• Blackwell companions to the ancient world. [More in this series]
• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Summary note

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 AntiquityApproaches ancient political philosophy from both a normative and historical focusExamines Greek and Roman political thought within historical context and contemporary debateExplores the role of ancient political thought in a range of philosophies, such as the individual and community, human rights, religion,

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• A COMPANION TO GREEK AND ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; List of Abbreviations; 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 Agathoi8 The Religious Contexts of Ancient Political Thought; PART II Democracies and Republics; 9 Democracy Ancient and Modern; 10 ''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 Politics18 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 Plato's Socrates; 23 Freedom, Tyranny, and the Political Man: Plato's Republic and Gorgias, a Study in Contrasts; 24 Plato on the Sovereignty of Law; 25 ''Naturalism'' in Aristotle's Political Philosophy; 26 The Ethics of Aristotle's Politics
• PART VI Constructing Political Narrative27 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 ''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

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ISBN

• 1-118-55668-2
• 1-78268-963-X
• 1-282-13935-5
• 9786612139352
• 1-4051-8505-8
• 1-4443-1034-8
• 1-4443-1033-X

OCLC

• 437111753
• 829461558

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