Stephen Salkever (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought

Herausgeber: Salkever, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780521867535
• ISBN-10: 0521867533
• Artikelnr.: 26055918

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stephen Salkever; 1. Homer and political thought Dean Hammer;
2. Foundings vs. constitutions: ancient tragedy and the origins of
political community Arlene W. Saxonhouse; 3. Most favored status in
Herodotus and Thucydides: recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon
and Pericles Norma Thompson; 4. Thucydides and political thought Gerald
Mara; 5. 'This way of life, this contest': rethinking Socratic citizenship
Susan Bickford; 6. The political drama of Plato's Republic David Roochnik;
7. Practical Plato Catherine H. Zuckert; 8. Reading Aristotle's Nicomachean
Ethics and Politics as a single course of lectures: rhetoric, politics, and
philosophy Stephen Salkever; 9. Lived excellence in Aristotle's
Constitution of Athens: why the Encomium of Theramenes matters Jill Frank
and S. Sara Monoson; 10. The virtue politics of democratic Athens Ryan K.
Balot; 11. Origins of rights in ancient political thought Fred D. Miller,
Jr.; 12. The emergence of natural law and the Cosmopolis Eric Brown.