Lane, M. S.

The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter / Eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter Melissa Lane. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014. - 381 pages : maps, charts ; 21 cm

First published in the United Kingdom as Greek and Roman political ideas ; a Pelican introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-355) and index.

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.

[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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Political science--History.--Rome
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Id�ees politiques--Histoire.--Gr�ece
Id�ees politiques--Histoire.--Rome


Greece.
Rome (Empire)

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