Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Homer and Political Thought
- 2 Foundings vs. Constitutions: Ancient Tragedy and the Origins of Political Community
- 3 Most Favored Status in Herodotus and Thucydides: Recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon and Pericles
- 4 Thucydides and Political Thought
- 5 “This Way of Life, This Contest”: Rethinking Socratic Citizenship
- 6 The Political Drama of Plato’s Republic
- 7 Practical Plato
- 8 Reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a Single Course of Lectures: Rhetoric, Politics, and Philosophy
- 9 Lived Excellence in Aristotle’s Constitution of Athens: Why the Encomium of Theramenes Matters
- 10 The Virtue Politics of Democratic Athens
- 11 Origins of Rights in Ancient Political Thought
- 12 The Emergence of Natural Law and the Cosmopolis
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Homer and Political Thought
- 2 Foundings vs. Constitutions: Ancient Tragedy and the Origins of Political Community
- 3 Most Favored Status in Herodotus and Thucydides: Recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon and Pericles
- 4 Thucydides and Political Thought
- 5 “This Way of Life, This Contest”: Rethinking Socratic Citizenship
- 6 The Political Drama of Plato’s Republic
- 7 Practical Plato
- 8 Reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a Single Course of Lectures: Rhetoric, Politics, and Philosophy
- 9 Lived Excellence in Aristotle’s Constitution of Athens: Why the Encomium of Theramenes Matters
- 10 The Virtue Politics of Democratic Athens
- 11 Origins of Rights in Ancient Political Thought
- 12 The Emergence of Natural Law and the Cosmopolis
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009