The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek political thought /

The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek political thought / Ancient Greek political thought edited by Stephen Salkever. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - ix, 380 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366) and index.

Homer and political thought / Dean Hammer -- Foundings vs. constitutions: ancient tragedy and the origins or political community / Arlene W. Saxonohouse -- Most favored status in Herodotus and Thucydides: recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon and Pericles / Norma Thompson -- Thucydides and political thought / Gerald Mara -- "This way of life, this contest": rethinking Socratic citizenship / Susan Bickford -- The political drama of Plato's Republic / David Roochnik -- Practical Plato / Catherine H. Zuckert -- Reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a single course of lectures: rhetoric, politics, and philosophy / Stephen Salkever -- Lived excellence in Aristotle's Constitution of Athens: why the encomium of Theramenes matters / Jill Frank and S. Sara Monson -- The virtue politics of democratic Athens / Ryan K. Balot -- Origins or rights in ancient political thought / Fred D. Miller, Jr. -- The emergence of natural law and the cosmopolis / Eric Brown.

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Political science--History--Greece--To 1500.



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