Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice

Investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from prehistoric times to the Roman Empire.

Auteur

Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, new edition 2002), Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300 362 BC (2001), and Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005).

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This book investigates the interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from prehistoric times to the Roman Empire.

Résumé
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, This book investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the Roman Empire.

Contenu

Timeline; 1. Meaning in context: how to write a history of Greek political thought; 2. The Greek invention of the polis, of politics and of the political; Narrative I. The Prehistoric and Protohistoric Greek World c.1300 BCE.750 BCE: 3. Rule by one: the politics of Homer, c.750 BCE; Narrative II. The Archaic Greek World, c.7500 BCE: 4. Rule by some: the politics of Solon, c.600 BCE; 5. Rule by all: the Athenian revolution, c.500 BCE; Narrative III. The Classical Greek World I: c.5000 BCE: 6. The human measure: the Greek invention of political theory, c.5000 BCE; 7. The trial of Socrates, 399 BCE; Narrative IV. The Classical Greek World II: c.4000 BCE: 8. Rule by one revisited: the politics of Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle - and Alexander the Great, c.4000 BCE; Narrative V. The Hellenistic Greek World c.300 BCE: 9. (E)utopianism by design: the Spartan revolution, 2441 BCE; Narrative VI. 'Graecia Capta' (Greece Conquered) c.146 BCEE 120: 10. The end of politics? The world of Plutarch, c.100 CE; 11. The Greek legacy and democracy today; Appendix I. Selected texts and documents; Appendix II. The 'Old Oligarch': a close reading.