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Author : Jed W. Atkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107007
A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.
Author : Dean Hammer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185682
Links modern political theorists with the Romans who inspired them Roman contributions to political theory have been acknowledged primarily in the province of law and administration. Even with a growing interest among classicists in Roman political thought, most political theorists view it as merely derivative of Greek philosophy. Focusing on the works of key Roman thinkers, Dean Hammer recasts the legacy of their political thought, examining their imaginative vision of a vulnerable political world and the relationship of the individual to this realm. By bringing modern political theorists into conversation with the Romans who inspired them—Arendt with Cicero, Machiavelli with Livy, Montesquieu with Tacitus, Foucault with Seneca—the author shows how both ancient Roman and modern European thinkers seek to recover an attachment to the political world that we actually inhabit, rather than to a utopia—a “perfect nowhere” outside of the existing order. Brimming with fresh interpretations of both ancient and modern theorists, this book offers provocative reading for classicists, political scientists, and anyone interested in political theory and philosophy. It is also a timely meditation on the hidden ways in which democracy can give way to despotism when the animating spirit of politics succumbs to resignation, cynicism, and fear.
Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1584651997
An experienced scholar explains why the legendary early Republic, rather than the historical Republic of Cicero, has most influenced later political thought.
Author : Dean Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195249
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Roman political thought, arguing that Romans engaged in wide-ranging reflections on politics.
Author : Ryan K. Balot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118556689
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 : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521481368
A definitive reference work on Greek and Roman political thought from the age of Homer to late antiquity, first published in 2000.
Author : Benjamin Straumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199950928
"The crisis and fall of the Roman Republic spawned a tradition of political thought that sought to evade the Republic's fate--despotism. Thinkers from Cicero to Bodin, Montesquieu and the American Founders saw constitutionalism, not virtue, as the remedy. This study traces Roman constitutional thought from antiquity to the Revolutionary Era"--
Author : Daniel J. Kapust
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139497114
Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as other classical writers and later political thinkers, this book develops interpretations of the three historians' writings centering on their treatments of liberty, rhetoric, and social and political conflict. Sallust is interpreted as an antagonistic republican, for whom elite conflict serves as an outlet and channel for the antagonisms of political life. Livy is interpreted as a consensualist republican, for whom character and its observation helps to maintain the body politic. Tacitus is interpreted as being centrally concerned with the development of prudence and as a subtle critic of imperial rule.
Author : Melissa Lane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691173092
"First published in the United Kingdom as: Greek and Roman political ideas: a Pelican introduction, by the Penquin Group, Penguin Books ... London"--T.p. verso.
Author : Richard N. Bosley,Martin M. Tweedale
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551118116
This book presents selections from the political and social thought of the ancient West from the early sixth century BCE up to the early years of the Roman Empire and includes not only the classic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, but a number of dramatists and historians as well. The range of topics these writings treat run from class conflict, through the perils of democracy and the horrors of tyranny, to the place of women in politics, while the styles range from the deeply dramatic of Sophocles’ Antigone and the bawdy satire of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen to Plato’s Socratic dialogue Republic and Aristotle’s scientific treatise Politics. The translations have been chosen, and sometimes modified, for clarity and readability, and are accompanied by introductions which set forth the historical context and trace the general lines of thought the readings develop. Frequent notes explain references to ancient lore unfamiliar to many readers. Questions for discussion accompany each reading.
Author : Valentina Arena,Jonathan R. W. Prag,Andrew Stiles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444339659
An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.
Author : Melissa Lane
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141976167
What is politics? What are the origins of political philosophy? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? In Greek and Roman Political Ideas, acclaimed classics scholar Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of political philosophy from Socrates to Cicero to Plutarch, Lane reminds us that the birth of politics was as much a story of individuals as ideas.
Author : Frank E. Adcock
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 0472060880
Studies Roman politics from the early kings, through the Republic, to the age of dictatorships
Author : Joy Connolly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691162256
Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.
Author : Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199684915
This book offers an innovative account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC), a major figure in Roman politics, was the first to articulate a philosophical rationale for republicanism.