A History of Greek Political Thought (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 34)
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A History of Greek Political Thought (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 34)

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A History of Greek Political Thought (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 34)

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This book gives a general survey of political thought from Homer to the beginning of the Christian era. To the evidence of the philosophers is added that of Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Polybius and others whose writings illustrate the course of Greek political thinking in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. This re-issues the second, updated edition of 1967.

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GENERAL INDEX
This General Index is primarily a list of persons, especially of authors and their works, Greek, Latin and modern, secondarily a subject index, in which respect it can be supplemented by the Index of Greek Words, which follows it. It is not an index of places or events, deities or races. Its references are to pages without distinction between the notes and the rest.
Academy, the (Plato’s), 120, 124, 125–126, 133, 159, 173, 180, 191, 210, 236, 247, 256, 262, 275, 277, 283
Adcock, F. E. 319
Acclamatio 308
Adeimantus (Plato’s brother), 81
Aelius Aristides of Smyrna, 300
Aeschines
(1) of Sphettus (Socraticus), 120, 139
(2) the orator, 161, 164, 239, 240, 248
AESCHYLUS, 21, 33, 34, 35, 39, 41, 42, 44, 122, 135, 226
Persae, 34, 39, 42
Suppliants, 41, 42
Eumenides, 42, 226
Agamemnon, 11, 12, 241
Agesilaus, 169
Alcaeus, 215
Agrippa, 327
Alcibiades, 80, 91, 99, 103–104, 120, 142
Alcidamas, 78, 96
Alcinous, 11, 12
Alexander the Great, 210, 220, 233, 239–242, 244, 254, 261, 276, 287, 300
Anarchy, 3, 20, 21, 23–24, 28, 34–3...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introductory: Preamble to the subject
  8. I. Homer
  9. II. Hesiod, Solon, Heraclitus. Discontent promotes the growth of political thought; the people and the individual
  10. III. The new freedom. Equality or Order? Herodotus and Aeschylus
  11. IV. Protagoras, the first great political thinker; man’s responsibility. Other Pre-Socratics. Democritus. The background of Socrates
  12. V. Antiphon and others. The right of the stronger and the future of the polis. Socrates, Euripides
  13. VI. Thucydides and statesmen of his time
  14. VII. The aftermath of war. Federal and monarchical ideas. Plato’s early life, Crito, Gorgias, The Academy. Isocrates
  15. VIII. Plato’s Republic
  16. IX. Xenophon. Plato’s Politicus or Statesman. Plato and Syracuse
  17. X. Plato’s Laws
  18. XI. Aristotle
  19. XII. Alexander the Great and the effect of his conquests. Hellenistic monarchy and Hellenistic cities. Philosophical schools, old and new, and their relation to politeia
  20. XIII. Greek political thought at Rome. Polybius, Panaetius, Posidonius, Cicero, Philodemus, Lucretius
  21. XIV. Hellenistic Monarchy again. Jewish influences. Monarchical writings of obscure date and origin. Philo of Alexandria
  22. XV. The early Roman empire
  23. General Index
  24. Index of Greek Words