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Titolo: |
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought / / edited by Ryan K. Balot
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Pubblicazione: | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013 |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 659 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.0938 |
Soggetto topico: | Political science - Greece - History |
Political science - Rome - History | |
Persona (resp. second.): | BalotRyan K <1969-> (Ryan Krieger) |
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, |
Titolo autorizzato: | Companion to Greek and Roman political thought ![]() |
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 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910146119503321 |
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