04995nam 2200733 450 99644154570331620200520144314.01-118-55668-21-78268-963-X1-282-13935-597866121393521-4051-8505-81-4443-1034-81-4443-1033-X(CKB)1000000000719846(EBL)428158(OCoLC)437111753(SSID)ssj0000354023(PQKBManifestationID)11246039(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000354023(PQKBWorkID)10302116(PQKB)10279935(MiAaPQ)EBC428158(MiAaPQ)EBC1120475(Au-PeEL)EBL1120475(CaPaEBR)ebr11196847(CaONFJC)MIL213935(OCoLC)829461558(PPN)162191510(EXLCZ)99100000000071984620160817h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to Greek and Roman political thought /edited by Ryan K. BalotChichester, England :Wiley-Blackwell,2013.©20131 online resource (xxviii, 659 p.)Blackwell Companions to the Ancient WorldDescription based upon print version of record.1-118-45135-X 1-4051-5143-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 Rome7 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 WorldPART 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 PoliticsPART 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 LocorumComprises 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,Blackwell companions to the ancient world.Political scienceGreeceHistoryPolitical scienceRomeHistoryPolitical scienceHistory.Political scienceHistory.320.0938Balot Ryan K(Ryan Krieger),1969-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996441545703316Companion to Greek and Roman political thought1758114UNISA