TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,M.S.
TI  - The birth of politics: eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter 
SN  - 0691166471 (acidfree paper)
AV  - JC73 .L3 2014
U1  - 320.0938 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Rome
KW  - fast
KW  - Rome (Empire)
N1  - "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
N2  - "[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
ER  -