TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,M.S.
TI  - The birth of politics: eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter 
SN  - 0691166471
AV  - JC73 .L3 2014
U1  - 320.093 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Rome
KW  - fast
KW  - Id�ees politiques
KW  - Gr�ece
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Rome (Empire)
N1  - 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
N2  - [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
ER  -