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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.