| Description |
1 online resource ([10], 381 pages) : illustrations (maps, charts) |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Note |
Originally published in the United Kingdom as Greek and Roman political ideas ; a Pelican introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-355) and index. |
| Contents |
List of figures -- List of maps -- Introduction: Possibilities of power and purpose -- Chapter 1: Justice -- Chapter 2: Constitution -- Chapter 3: Democracy -- Chapter 4: Virtue -- Chapter 5: Citizenship -- Chapter 6: Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 7: Republic -- Chapter 8: Soverignty -- Conclusion: Futures of Greek and Roman pasts -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Athens map key -- Brief biographies of key persons, events and places -- Reference lists and abbreviations -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
[An introduction] to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democrary, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire ... [Lane] focuses on eight political ideas from the Greco-Roman world that are especially influential today ... and describes how the ancient formulations of these ideas often challenge widely held modern assumptions. -- from publisher description on book jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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English. |
| Subject |
Political science -- Greece -- History.
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Political science -- Rome -- History.
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| Related To |
Print version: Lane, M.S. (Melissa S.). Greek and Roman political ideas. Birth of politics 0691166471 (OCoLC)894625506 |
| Standard No. |
958096034 958392184 1031227812 1132229656 1162390203 1175635403 |
| ISBN |
9781400865543 (electronic bk.) |
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1400865549 (electronic bk.) |
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9780141976167 (electronic bk.) |
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0141976160 (electronic bk.) |
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0691166471 |
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9780691166476 |
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9780691173092 |
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0691173095 |
| OCLC # |
jseba905902982 |
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