Readings in Classical Political Thought

by Steinberger, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780872205123
• ISBN10: 0872205126
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Summary

From Homer to Machiavelli, this new anthology features all of the major ancient and medieval political theory. In the spirit of those traditions of classical and medieval thought it elucidates, Readings in Classical Political Thought represents not only those thinkers traditionally recognised as philosophers, but poets, legislators, sophists, dramatists, historians, statesmen and theologians as well. Pre-eminent translations and the editor's own thoughtful Introductions further distinguish this unique anthology.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Early Poets	1	(16)
Homer, Iliad	4	(6)
Hesiod, Theogony	10	(3)
Works and Days	10	(3)
Tyrtaeus of Sparta	13	(1)
Solon of Athens	14	(2)
Theognis of Megara	16	(1)
Presocratics and Sophists	17	(12)
Heraclitus of Ephesus	20	(1)
Protagoras	20	(1)
Plato's Protagoras	21	(4)
Gorgias, In Praise of Helen	25	(1)
Antiphon	26	(1)
The Anonymus Iamblichi	26	(3)
Historians	29	(30)
Herodotus, Histories	32	(3)
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War	35	(24)
Tragedians and Comedians	59	(77)
Aeschylus, The Furies	62	(16)
Aristophanes, Clouds	78	(39)
Sophocles, Antigone	117	(19)
Socrates and Plato	136	(222)
Euthyphro	139	(8)
Apology	147	(12)
Crito	159	(7)
Republic	166	(151)
Laws	317	(41)
Aristotle	358	(85)
Nicomachean Ethics	361	(16)
Politics	377	(66)
Cicero	443	(18)
The Republic	446	(15)
Augustine	461	(44)
City of God	463	(42)
Thomas Aquinas	505	(42)
Summa Theologica	508	(34)
Statesmanship	542	(5)
Machiavelli	547	(76)
Letter to Francesco Vettori	549	(2)
The Prince	551	(40)
Discourses	591	(32)
Works Cited	623