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Informationen zum Autor Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, new edition 2002), Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300–362 BC (2001), and Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005). Klappentext This book investigates the interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from prehistoric times to the Roman Empire. Zusammenfassung Ancient 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! This book investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the Roman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Timeline; 1. Meaning in context: how to write a history of Greek political thought; 2. The Greek invention of the polis, of politics and of the political; Narrative I. The Prehistoric and Protohistoric Greek World c.1300 BCE-c.750 BCE: 3. Rule by one: the politics of Homer, c.750 BCE; Narrative II. The Archaic Greek World, c.750-500 BCE: 4. Rule by some: the politics of Solon, c.600 BCE; 5. Rule by all: the Athenian revolution, c.500 BCE; Narrative III. The Classical Greek World I: c.500-400 BCE: 6. The human measure: the Greek invention of political theory, c.500-400 BCE; 7. The trial of Socrates, 399 BCE; Narrative IV. The Classical Greek World II: c.400-300 BCE: 8. Rule by one revisited: the politics of Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle - and Alexander the Great, c.400-330 BCE; Narrative V. The Hellenistic Greek World c.300-30 BCE: 9. (E)utopianism by design: the Spartan revolution, 244-221 BCE; Narrative VI. 'Graecia Capta' (Greece Conquered) c.146 BCE-CE 120: 10. The end of politics? The world of Plutarch, c.100 CE; 11. The Greek legacy and democracy today; Appendix I. Selected texts and documents; Appendix II. The 'Old Oligarch': a close reading....
