Ancient Greek Political Thought in PracticeAncient 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, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire. Of concern throughout are three major issues: first, the relationship of political thought and practice; second, the relevance of class and status to explaining political behaviour and thinking; third, democracy - its invention, development and expansion, and extinction, prior to its recent resuscitation and even apotheosis. In addition, monarchy in various forms and at different periods and the peculiar political structures of Sparta are treated in detail over a chronological range extending from Homer to Plutarch. The book provides an introduction to the topic for all students and non-specialists who appreciate the continued relevance of ancient Greece to political theory and practice today. |
Contents
The prehistoric and protohistoric Greek world c 1300750 bce | 25 |
The archaic Greek world c 750500 bce | 41 |
The classical Greek world I c 500400 bce | 65 |
The classical Greek world II c 400300 bce | 91 |
The Hellenistic Greek world c 30030 bce | 107 |
Graecia capta Greece conquered c 146 bce ce 120 | 120 |
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Achilles Agis Agis IV Alexander ancient Greek anti-democratic aristocratic Aristotle Assembly Athenian Athens Cambridge Cartledge 2002 century BCE chapter citizen body civic claim classical Cleisthenes Cleomenes Cleomenes III constitution contemporary context culture death democracy democratic Athens dêmokratia dêmos divine early elite Empire epic equality especially fifth century Finley formally fourth century freedom gods Greece Greek city Greek political thought Greek world hardback Hellenic Hellenistic Herodotus Herodotus’s historian Homer ideal ideological Iliad intellectual invention Isocrates isonomia king later least less literally Macedon major mass means Meletus modern monarchy notion Odysseus oligarchic paperback Pericles Persian Debate philosophical Plato Plutarch polis politeia political theory Polybius practice pragmatic precisely Protagoras Raaflaub Rahe reforms regime religious Republic revolution Roman Rome rule ruler sense social Solon Sophists sort Sparta Sphaerus stasis Stoic term Thebes third century Thucydides trial of Socrates Troy tyranny tyrant Utopia word Xenophon