Greek and Roman political ideas

The birth of politics : eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter / Melissa Lane.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

©2014

381 pages : maps ; 21 cm

"First published in the United Kingdom as: Greek and Roman political ideas : a Pelican introduction, by the Pelican Group, Penguin Books ... London"--T.p. verso.

"[An introduction] to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democrary, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire...[Lane] focuses on eight political ideas from the Greco-Roman world that are especially influential today...and describes how the ancient formulations of these ideas often challenge widely held modern assumptions"--From publisher description on book jacket.

Eight Greek and Roman political ideas and why they matter

English

May 29, 2015

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-355) and index.

History.