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9780521867535

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521867535

  • ISBN10:

    0521867533

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-04-27
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Political Thought offers a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analyzing what they have to tell us about the problems of political life. Focusing on texts by Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, they examine perennial issues, including rights and virtues, democracy and the rule of law, community formation and maintenance, and the ways in which theorizing of several genres can and cannot assist political practice.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Homer and political thought
Foundings vs. constitutions: ancient tragedy and the origins of political community
Most favored status in Herodotus and Thucydides: recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon and Pericles
Thucydides and political thought
'This way of life, this contest': rethinking Socratic citizenship
The political drama of Plato's Republic
Practical Plato
Reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a single course of lectures: rhetoric, politics, and philosophy
Lived excellence in Aristotle's Constitution of Athens: why the Encomium of Theramenes matters
The virtue politics of democratic Athens
Origins of rights in ancient political thought
The emergence of natural law and the Cosmopolis
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