The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter /
Lane, M. S.
The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter / Eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter Melissa Lane. - 381 pages : maps ; 21 cm
"First published in the United Kingdom as: Greek and Roman political ideas : a Pelican introduction, by the Penguin Group, Penguin Books ... London"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-355) and index.
Introduction: Possibilities of power and purpose -- Justice -- Constitution -- Democracy -- Virtue -- Citizenship -- Cosmopolitanism -- Republic -- Soverignty -- Conclusion: Futures of Greek and Roman pasts -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Athens map key -- Brief biographies of key persons, events and places -- Reference lists and abbreviations.
"[An introduction] to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democrary, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire...[Lane] focuses on eight political ideas from the Greco-Roman world that are especially influential today...and describes how the ancient formulations of these ideas often challenge widely held modern assumptions"--From publisher description on book jacket.
0691166471 (acidfree paper) 9780691166476 (acid-free paper)
2014951472
Political science--History.--Greece
Political science--History.--Rome
Political science.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
History.
JC73 / .L3 2014
320.0938
The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter / Eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter Melissa Lane. - 381 pages : maps ; 21 cm
"First published in the United Kingdom as: Greek and Roman political ideas : a Pelican introduction, by the Penguin Group, Penguin Books ... London"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-355) and index.
Introduction: Possibilities of power and purpose -- Justice -- Constitution -- Democracy -- Virtue -- Citizenship -- Cosmopolitanism -- Republic -- Soverignty -- Conclusion: Futures of Greek and Roman pasts -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Athens map key -- Brief biographies of key persons, events and places -- Reference lists and abbreviations.
"[An introduction] to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democrary, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire...[Lane] focuses on eight political ideas from the Greco-Roman world that are especially influential today...and describes how the ancient formulations of these ideas often challenge widely held modern assumptions"--From publisher description on book jacket.
0691166471 (acidfree paper) 9780691166476 (acid-free paper)
2014951472
Political science--History.--Greece
Political science--History.--Rome
Political science.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
History.
JC73 / .L3 2014
320.0938