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Record Nr.

UNISA996202468603316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek political thought / / edited by Stephen Salkever [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-139-80146-5

1-139-00253-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 380 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to the ancient world

Disciplina

320.0938

Soggetti

Political science - Greece - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Homer and political thought / Dean Hammer -- Foundings vs. constitutions: ancient tragedy and the origins or political community / Arlene W. Saxonohouse -- Most favored status in Herodotus and Thucydides: recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon and Pericles / Norma Thompson -- Thucydides and political thought / Gerald Mara -- "This way of life, this contest": rethinking Socratic citizenship / Susan Bickford -- The political drama of Plato's Republic / David Roochnik -- Practical Plato / Catherine H. Zuckert -- Reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a single course of lectures: rhetoric, politics, and philosophy / Stephen Salkever -- Lived excellence in Aristotle's Constitution of Athens: why the encomium of Theramenes matters / Jill Frank and S. Sara Monson -- The virtue politics of democratic Athens / Ryan K. Balot -- Origins or rights in ancient political thought / Fred D. Miller, Jr. -- The emergence of natural law and the cosmopolis / Eric Brown.

Sommario/riassunto

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of political life. Focusing on texts by Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among



others, they examine perennial issues, including rights and virtues, democracy and the rule of law, community formation and maintenance, and the ways in which theorizing of several genres can and cannot assist political practice.