Balot A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-55668-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 688 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Comprises 34 essays from leading scholars in history, classics,philosophy, and political science to illuminate Greek and Romanpolitical thought in all its diversity and depth.
* Offers a broad survey of ancient political thought from ArchaicGreece through Late Antiquity
* Approaches ancient political philosophy from both a normativeand historical focus
* Examines Greek and Roman political thought within historicalcontext and contemporary debate
* Explores the role of ancient political thought in a range ofphilosophies, such as the individual and community, human rights,religion, and cosmopolitanism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balot, Ryan K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvi
Note on Translations xvii
List of Abbreviations xviii
PART I The Broad View 1
1 Introduction: Rethinking the History of Greek and RomanPolitical Thought 3
Ryan K. Balot
2 What is Politics in the Ancient World? 20
Dean Hammer
3 Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean Context37
Kurt A. Raaflaub
4 Civic Ideology and Citizenship 57
P. J. Rhodes
5 Public Action and Rational Choice in Classical Greek PoliticalTheory 70
Josiah Ober
6 Imperial Ideologies, Citizenship Myths, and Legal Disputes inClassical Athens and Republican Rome 85
Craige B. Champion
7 Gendered Politics, or the Self-Praise of Andres Agathoi100
Giulia Sissa
8 The Religious Contexts of Ancient Political Thought 118
Robin Osborne
PART II Democracies and Republics 131
9 Democracy Ancient and Modern 133
Peter Liddel
10 ''Rights,'' Individuals, andCommunities in Ancient Greece 149
Paul Cartledge and Matt Edge
11 Personal Freedom in Greek Democracies, Republican Rome, andModern Liberal States 164
Robert W. Wallace
12 The Mixed Constitution in Greek Thought 178
David E. Hahm
13 Republican Virtues 199
Malcolm Schofield
14 Roman Democracy? 214
W. Jeffrey Tatum
PART III The Virtues and Vices of One-Man Rule 229
15 The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny 231
Sara Forsdyke
16 Hellenistic Monarchy in Theory and Practice 247
Arthur M. Eckstein
17 The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World 266
Carlos F. Noren~a
PART IV The Passions of Ancient Politics 281
18 Political Animals: Pathetic Animals 283
Giulia Sissa
19 Anger, Eros, and Other Political Passions in Ancient GreekThought 294
Paul W. Ludwig
20 Some Passionate Performances in Late Republican Rome308
Robert A. Kaster
PART V The Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle321
21 The Trial and Death of Socrates 323
Debra Nails
22 The Politics of Plato's Socrates 339
Rachana Kamtekar
23 Freedom, Tyranny, and the Political Man: Plato'sRepublic and Gorgias, a Study in Contrasts 353
Arlene W. Saxonhouse
24 Plato on the Sovereignty of Law 367
Zena Hitz
25 ''Naturalism'' in Aristotle'sPolitical Philosophy 382
Timothy Chappell
26 The Ethics of Aristotle's Politics 399
David J. Depew
PART VI Constructing Political Narrative 419
27 Imitating Virtue and Avoiding Vice: Ethical Functions ofBiography, History, and Philosophy 421
Charles W. Hedrick, Jr
28 Greek Drama and Political Thought 440
John Gibert
29 Character in Politics 456
Philip A. Stadter
PART VII Antipolitics 471
30 Cosmopolitan Traditions 473
David Konstan
31 False Idles: The Politics of the ''QuietLife'' 485
Eric Brown
32 Citizenship and Signs: Rethinking Augustine on the Two Cities501
Todd Breyfogle
PART VIII Receptions 527
33 Republicanism: Ancient, Medieval, and Beyond 529
Christopher Nadon
34 Twentieth Century Revivals of Ancient Political Thought:Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss 542
Catherine H. Zuckert
References 557
Index of Subjects 620
Index Locorum 650

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan K. Balot is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. The author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (2001) and Greek Political Thought (Blackwell, 2006), he specializes in the history of political thought.