The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter /
Overview: In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of our political concepts from Socrates t...
| Основен автор: | Lane, M. S. (Author) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Съдържание:
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Introduction: Possibilities of power and purpose
- Timeline of people and ideas
- Justice
- Constitution
- Overview of Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War
- Democracy
- Highlights of Athenian history
- Virtue
- Citizenship
- Cosmopolitanism
- Republic
- Highlights of Roman history
- Sovereignty
- 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.