☆A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought(유)

Ryan K. Balot (Editor)

☆A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought
Wiley-Blackwell 2012

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations

List of Abbreviations

 

PART I The Broad View

 

1 Introduction: Rethinking the History of Greek and Roman Political Thought

Ryan K. Balot

 

2 What is Politics in the Ancient World?
Dean Hammer

 

3 Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean Context
Kurt A. Raaflaub

 

4 Civic Ideology and Citizenship
P. J. Rhodes

 

5 Public Action and Rational Choice in Classical Greek Political Theory
Josiah Ober

 

6 Imperial Ideologies, Citizenship Myths, and Legal Disputes in Classical Athens and Republican Rome
Craige B. Champion

 

7 Gendered Politics, or the Self-Praise of Andres Agathoi
Giulia Sissa

 

8 The Religious Contexts of Ancient Political Thought
Robin Osborne

 

PART II Democracies and Republics

 

9 Democracy Ancient and Modern

Peter Liddel

 

10 ‘‘Rights,’’ Individuals, and Communities in Ancient Greece
Paul Cartledge and Matt Edge

 

11 Personal Freedom in Greek Democracies, Republican Rome, and Modern Liberal States
Robert W. Wallace

 

12 The Mixed Constitution in Greek Thought

David E. Hahm

 

13 Republican Virtues
Malcolm Schofield

 

14 Roman Democracy?
W. Jeffrey Tatum

 

PART III The Virtues and Vices of one-Man Rule

 

15 The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny
Sara Forsdyke

 

16 Hellenistic Monarchy in Theory and Practice

Arthur M. Eckstein

 

17 The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World
Carlos F. Noren˜a

 

PART IV The Passions of Ancient Politics

 

18 Political Animals: Pathetic Animals
Giulia Sissa

 

19 Anger, Eros, and Other Political Passions in Ancient Greek Thought

Paul W. Ludwig

 

20 Some Passionate Performances in Late Republican Rome
Robert A. Kaster

 

PART V The Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

 

21 The Trial and Death of Socrates
Debra Nails

 

22 The Politics of Plato’s Socrates
Rachana Kamtekar

 

23 Freedom, Tyranny, and the Political Man: Plato’s Republic and Gorgias, a Study in Contrasts
Arlene W. Saxonhouse

 

24 Plato on the Sovereignty of Law
Zena Hitz

 

25 ‘‘Naturalism’’ in Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
Timothy Chappell

 

26 The Ethics of Aristotle’s Politics
David J. Depew

 

PART VI Constructing Political Narrative

 

27 Imitating Virtue and Avoiding Vice: Ethical Functions of Biography, History, and Philosophy
Charles W. Hedrick, Jr

 

28 Greek Drama and Political Thought
John Gibert

 

29 Character in Politics
Philip A. Stadter

 

PART VII Antipolitics

 

30 Cosmopolitan Traditions
David Konstan

 

31 False Idles: The Politics of the ‘‘Quiet Life’’
Eric Brown

 

32 Citizenship and Signs: Rethinking Augustine on the Two Cities
Todd Breyfogle

 

PART VIII Receptions

 

33 Republicanism: Ancient, Medieval, and Beyond
Christopher Nadon

 

34 Twentieth Century Revivals of Ancient Political Thought

  -Hanna Arendt and Leo Strauss
Catherine H. Zuckert

 

References

Index of Subjects

Index Locorum