Early Greek Political Thought From Homer to the Sophists

Zusammenfassung This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors. There is a particular emphasis on the sophists! with the inclusion of all of their significant surviving texts! and the works of Alcidamas! Antisthenes and the 'Old Oligarch' are also represented. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Principal dates; Bibliographical note; Glossary; Table of equivalents; Part I. Early Poetry: 1; Homer; 2. Hesiod; 3. Archilochus; 4. Tyrtaeus; 5. Solon; 6. Theognis; 7. Hymn to Hephaestus; 8. Simonides; 9. Xenophanes; 10. Pindar; Part II. Tragedy: 11. Aeschylus; 12. Sophocles; 13. Euripides; 14. Other tragic fragments; Part III. History and Folklore: 15. Herodotus; 16. Thucydides; 17. The old Oligarch; 18. Aesop; Part IV. Philosophy and Science: 19. Heraclitus; 20. Democritus; 21. Medical writers from the Hippocratic corpus; 22. Antisthenes; Part V. Sophists; 23. Protagoras; 24. Gorgias; 25. Prodicus; 26. Hippias; 27. Antiphon; 28. Thrasymachus; 29. Evenus; 30. Critias; 31. Lycophron; 32. Alcidamas; 33. Anonymus Iamblichi; 34. Dissoi Logoi; 35. From unknown authors; Index.

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• Authors: Michael Woodruff Gagarin
• Assisted by: Michael Gagarin (Editor), Gagarin Michael (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor), Paul Woodruff (Editor), Woodruff Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.1995
• EAN: 9780521431927
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43192-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; Cambridge Texts in the History; Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, Political science & theory, Political science and theory