Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists

by Edited by Michael Gagarin , Paul Woodruff

• ISBN13: 9780521437684
• ISBN10: 0521437687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedians, historians, medical writers and presocratic philosophers. Besides political theory, ancient political thought includes early sociology, anthropology, ethics and rhetoric, and the wide range of issues discussed includes the origin of human society, the origin of law, the nature of justice, the forms of good government, and the distribution of power among genders and social classes.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Principal dates

Bibliographical note

Glossary

Table of equivalents

Part I. Early Poetry: 1

Homer

2. Hesiod

3. Archilochus

4. Tyrtaeus

5. Solon

6. Theognis

7. Hymn to Hephaestus

8. Simonides

9. Xenophanes

10. Pindar

Part II. Tragedy: 11. Aeschylus

12. Sophocles

13. Euripides

14. Other tragic fragments

Part III. History and Folklore: 15. Herodotus

16. Thucydides

17. The old Oligarch

18. Aesop

Part IV. Philosophy and science: 19. Heraclitus

20. Democritus

21. Medical writers from the Hippocratic corpus

22. Antisthenes

Part V. Sophists

23. Protagoras

24. Gorgias

25. Prodicus

26. Hippias

27. Antiphon

28. Thrasymachus

29. Evenus

30. Critias

31. Lycophoron

32. Alcidamas

33. Anonymus Iamblichi

34. Dissoi Logoi

35. From unknown authors

Index.