The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter / Melissa Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, M. S. (Melissa S.), author.

Standardized Title:

Greek and Roman political ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Greece--History.

Political science.

Greece.

History.

Political science--Rome--History.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 381 pages : illustrations (maps, charts) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.

Summary:

[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.

Contents:

List of figures

List of maps

Introduction: Possibilities of power and purpose

Chapter 1: Justice

Chapter 2: Constitution

Chapter 3: Democracy

Chapter 4: Virtue

Chapter 5: Citizenship

Chapter 6: Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 7: Republic

Chapter 8: 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

Notes

Index.

Notes:

First published in the United Kingdom as Greek and Roman political ideas ; a Pelican introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-355) and index.

ISBN:

0691166471

9780691166476

OCLC:

894625506