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Record Nr.

UNISA996441545703316

Titolo

A companion to Greek and Roman political thought / / edited by Ryan K. Balot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013

©2013

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 659 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Disciplina

320.0938

Soggetti

Political science - Greece - History

Political science - Rome - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,