The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter / Melissa Lane.
By: Lane, M. S. (Melissa S.) [author.].
Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Description: 381 pages : maps ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691166476 (acidfree paper).Other title: Eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter.Uniform titles: Greek and Roman political ideas Subject(s): Political science -- Greece -- History | Political science -- Rome -- History | Political science | Greece | Rome (Empire)Genre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"First published in the United Kingdom as: Greek and Roman political ideas : a Pelican introduction, by the Penquin 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.