ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |9 pages

Introductory

chapter 1|9 pages

Homer

chapter II|14 pages

From Hesiod to Heraclitus

chapter III|10 pages

The New Freedom

chapter IV|26 pages

Protagoras and Others

chapter V|29 pages

Socrates and His Opponents

chapter VI|17 pages

Thucydides

chapter VII|28 pages

Plato and Isocrates

chapter VIII|26 pages

Plato's Republic

chapter IX|17 pages

Xenophon and Plato

chapter X|23 pages

Plato's Laws

chapter XI|30 pages

Aristotle

chapter XII|30 pages

After Alexander

chapter XIII|18 pages

Greek Political Thought at Rome

chapter XIV|16 pages

Hellenistic Monarchy Again

chapter XV|26 pages

The Early Roman Empire