The birth of politics :

By: Lane, M. S. (Melissa S.)Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014Description: 381 pages : maps, charts ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691166471; 9780691166476; 9780691166476; 9780691166476 (acidfree paper); 0691166471 (acidfree paper); 9780691166476; 0691166471; 0691166471; 0691173095; 9780691166476; 9780691173092Other title: Eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matterUniform titles: Greek and Roman political ideas Subject(s): Political science -- Greece -- History | Political science -- Rome -- History | Political science | Id�ees politiques -- Gr�ece -- Histoire | Id�ees politiques -- Rome -- Histoire | Greece | Rome (Empire)DDC classification: 320.093 LOC classification: JC73 | .L3 2014JC51 | .L364 2014
Contents:
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.
Summary: [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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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.