The birth of politics

eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter

The birth of politics

eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter
Melissa Lane
Book - 2014

"[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.

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37413315786709 متاح Non-fiction 320.0938 LANE
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Lane, M. S. (Melissa S.) (مؤلف)
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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505 0 |a Introduction: Possibilities of power and purpose -- Justice -- Constitution -- Democracy -- Virtue -- Citizenship -- Cosmopolitanism -- Republic -- Soverignty -- Conclusion: Futures of Greek and Roman pasts -- Athens map key -- Brief biographies of key persons, events and places -- Reference lists and abbreviations. 
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