The Birth of Politics : Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter /
[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 ... an...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
|
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | [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. |
---|---|
Notas: | Originally published in the United Kingdom as Greek and Roman political ideas; a Pelican introduction. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (400 pages): illustrations (maps, charts) |
ISBN: | 9781400865543 |