Greek Political Thought

Author : Ryan K. Balot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405152211

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Greek Political Thought by Ryan K. Balot Pdf

This wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought showswhat ancient political texts might mean to citizens of thetwenty-first century. A provocative and wide-ranging history of ancient Greekpolitical thought Demonstrates what ancient Greek works of political philosophymight mean to citizens of the twenty-first century Examines an array of poetic, historical, and philosophicaltexts in an effort to locate Greek political thought in itscultural context Pays careful attention to the distinctively ancient connectionsbetween politics and ethics Structured around key themes such as the origins of politicalthought, political self-definition, revolutions in politicalthought, democracy and imperialism

Author : Stephen Salkever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139828024

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought by Stephen Salkever Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of political life. Focusing on texts by Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, they examine perennial issues, including rights and virtues, democracy and the rule of law, community formation and maintenance, and the ways in which theorizing of several genres can and cannot assist political practice.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139488495

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Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice by Paul Cartledge Pdf

Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire. Of concern throughout are three major issues: first, the relationship of political thought and practice; second, the relevance of class and status to explaining political behaviour and thinking; third, democracy - its invention, development and expansion, and extinction, prior to its recent resuscitation and even apotheosis. In addition, monarchy in various forms and at different periods and the peculiar political structures of Sparta are treated in detail over a chronological range extending from Homer to Plutarch. The book provides an introduction to the topic for all students and non-specialists who appreciate the continued relevance of ancient Greece to political theory and practice today.

Author : Ryan K. Balot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118556689

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A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought by Ryan K. Balot Pdf

A COMPANION TO GREEK AND ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT Justice, virtue, and citizenship were at the center of political life in ancient Greece and Rome and were frequently discussed by classical poets, historians, and philosophers. This Companion illuminates Greek and Roman political thought in all its range, diversity, and depth. Thirty-four essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, and political science provide stimulating discussions of classical political thought, ranging from the Archaic Greek epics to the final days of the Roman Empire and beyond. These essays strike a judicious yet thought-provoking balance between theoretical and historical perspectives. A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought is an authoritative guide to the ancient Greek and Roman political questions that continue to shape and challenge the modern world.

Author : Christopher Rowe,Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521481368

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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought by Christopher Rowe,Malcolm Schofield Pdf

A definitive reference work on Greek and Roman political thought from the age of Homer to late antiquity, first published in 2000.

Author : J. Noel Hubler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030820916

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Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy by J. Noel Hubler Pdf

Overcoming Uncertainty in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy makes an historical and theoretical contribution by explaining the role of opinion in ancient Greek political philosophy, showing its importance for Aristotle’s theory of deliberation, and indicating a new model for a deliberative republic. Currently, there are no studies of opinion in ancient Greek political theory and so the book breaks new historical ground. The book establishes that opinion is key for the political theories of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics because each sees uncertainty as a problem that needs to be overcome if one is to establish a virtuous polity. Since they have different notions of the nature of the uncertainty of opinion, they develop very different political strategies to overcome it. The book explains that Plato’s and the Stoics’ analyses of uncertainty support oligarchy and monarchy, respectively, and that theoretical support for deliberate politics requires a more nuanced understanding of uncertainty that only Aristotle provides.

Author : Michael Gagarin,Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521437687

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Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists by Michael Gagarin,Paul Woodruff Pdf

Including the works of more than thirty authors, this edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes the origin of human society and law; the nature of justice and good government; the distribution of power among genders and social classes.

Author : Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226735540

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Fear of Diversity by Arlene W. Saxonhouse Pdf

This wide-ranging and provocative book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought an unseen and unifying force that would constrain and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than place the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real differences - in particular the female, the family, and sexuality - in both their political and personal lives. While the dramatists and Plato captured the tragic consequences of trying to do so, it was not until Aristotle and his Politics did the Greek world - and its heirs - have a true science of politics, one capable of embracing diversity and accommodating conflict. Much of the book's force derives from Saxonhouse's masterful interweaving of Greek philosophy and drama, her juxtaposition of the thought of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and other philosophers to the cultural life revealed by such dramatists as Aristophanes and Aeschylus. Her approach opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual and the family. The Fear of Diversity represents an important contribution to political philosophy, classics, and gender studies.

Author : Paul W. Ludwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139434171

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Eros and Polis by Paul W. Ludwig Pdf

Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities, contemporary theory and ideology could conceive of entire communities based on desire. A recurrent aspiration was to transform the polity into one great household that would bind the citizens together through ties of mutual affection. In this study, Paul Ludwig evaluates sexuality, love and civic friendship as sources of political attachment and as bonds of political association. Studying the ancient view of eros recovers a way of looking at political phenomena that provides a bridge, missing in modern thought, between the private and public spheres, between erotic love and civic commitment. Ludwig's study thus has important implications for the theoretical foundations of community.

Author : Sir Ernest Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135026851

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Greek Political Theory by Sir Ernest Barker Pdf

Much has been written about the interpretation of Plato in the last thirty years. Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the left, and a prophet of Socialism, he has lately been interpreted as a revolutionary of the Right and a forerunner of Fascism. In this book Plato appears as himself – a revolutionary indeed, and even an authoritarian, but a revolutionary of the pure idea of the Good, and an authoritarian of the pure reason, unattached either to the Right or the Left.

Author : Christian Meier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0674362322

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The Greek Discovery of Politics by Christian Meier Pdf

Why the Greeks? How did it happen that these people--out of all Mediterranean societies--developed democratic systems of government? The outstanding German historian of the ancient world, Christian Meier, reconstructs the process of political thinking in Greek culture that led to democracy. He demonstrates that the civic identity of the Athenians was a direct precondition for the practical reality of this form of government. Meier shows how the structure of Greek communal life gave individuals a civic role and discusses a crucial reform that institutionalized the idea of equality before the law. In Greek drama--specifically Aeschylus' Oresteia--he finds reflections of the ascendancy of civil law and of a politicizing of life in the city-state. He examines the role of the leader as well as citizen participation in Athenian democracy and describes an ancient equivalent of the idea of social progress. He also contrasts the fifth-century Greek political world with today's world, drawing revealing comparisons. The Greek Discovery of Politics is important reading for ancient historians, classicists, political scientists, and anyone interested in the history of political thought or in the culture of ancient Greece.

Author : Sir Ernest Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:19728825

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Greek Political Theory by Sir Ernest Barker Pdf

Author : Jacques Brunschwig,Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd,Pierre Pellegrin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 067400261X

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Greek Thought by Jacques Brunschwig,Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd,Pierre Pellegrin Pdf

In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought, investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the possibilities of knowing. 65 color illustrations. Maps.

Author : George Boys-Stones,Barbara Graziosi,Phiroze Vasunia
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191608704

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The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies by George Boys-Stones,Barbara Graziosi,Phiroze Vasunia Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own research by introducing the primary resources and exploring the latest agenda for their study. The emphasis is on the breadth and potential of Hellenic Studies as a flourishing and exciting intellectual arena, and also upon its relevance to the way we think about ourselves today.

Author : Ryan K. Balot
Publisher : LibreDigital
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405152214

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Greek Political Thought by Ryan K. Balot Pdf

This wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought shows what ancient political texts might mean to citizens of the twenty-first century. A provocative and wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought Demonstrates what ancient Greek works of political philosophy might mean to citizens of the twenty-first century Examines an array of poetic, historical, and philosophical texts in an effort to locate Greek political thought in its cultural context Pays careful attention to the distinctively ancient connections between politics and ethics Structured around key themes such as the origins of political thought, political self-definition, revolutions in political thought, democracy and imperialism