Greek and Roman Political Ideas : A Pelican Introduction - Melissa Lane

Greek and Roman Political Ideas

A Pelican Introduction

By: Melissa Lane

Paperback | 25 June 2014 | Edition Number 1

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Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? What should we exercise power? In Greek and Roman Political Ideas, acclaimed classics scholar Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of political philosophy from Socrates to Cicero to Plutarch, Lane reminds us that the birth of politics was as much a story of individuals as ideas. Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught for fifteen years at Cambridge University, where she also studied as a Marshall and Truman scholar. The historian Richard Tuck called her book Eco-Republic 'a virtuoso performance by one of our best scholars of ancient philosophy.'

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