Roman political thought and the modern theoretical imagination /

Hammer, Dean, 1959-

Roman political thought and the modern theoretical imagination / Dean Hammer. - Norman, United States : University of Oklahoma Press, c.2008. - xiii, 358 p. ; 23 cm. - Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 34 .

Includes indexes.

bibliographical : p. 283-337.

The Romans in political thought -- Cicero, Arendt, and the cultivation of the political world : reading the Tusculan disputations politically-Livy, Machiavelli, and the recovery of felt meanings-Tacitus, Montesquieu and the malady of despotism-Seneca and Foucault : restoring the jurisdiction of the political.

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Political science--History.--Rome
Political science--Cross-cultural studies



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