List of maps xiii
Preface xv
Abbreviations xvi-xx
Introduction 1(10)
Christopher Rowe
PART I ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE
Greek political thought: the historical context 11(12)
Paul Cartledge
Terminology 11(1)
The `political" 12(5)
The polis 17(3)
Political theory 20(3)
THE BEGINNINGS
Poets, lawgivers, and the beginnings of political reflection in archaic Greece 23(37)
Kurt A. Raaflaub
Polis and political thinking 23(3)
Archaic poetry and political thinking 26(1)
Homer 27(7)
Hesiod 34(3)
Tyrtaeus to Theognis 37(2)
Solon 39(3)
Archaic lawgivers 42(6)
Early philosophers 48(2)
Near Eastern antecedents and influences 50(7)
Conclusion: the beginnings of political thinking in Archaic Greece 57(3)
Greek drama and political theory 60(29)
Simon Goldhill
The institution of the theatre 61(4)
Political themes of tragic writing 65(9)
The Oresteia 74(7)
Antigone 81(3)
Comedy 84(3)
Conclusion 87(2)
Herodotus, Thucydides and the sophists 89(33)
Richard Winton
The sophists 89(12)
Herodotus 101(10)
Thucydides 111(11)
Democritus 122(8)
C. C. W. Taylor
The orators 130(12)
Josiah Ober
Introduction 130(1)
Historical background and institutional context 131(3)
The corpus of orations by Athenian orators 134(1)
Popular wisdom and the problem of erroneous public decisions 135(7)
Xenophon and Isocrates 142(13)
V. J. Gray
Democracy 143(3)
Rulership 146(5)
Sparta 151(3)
Panhellenism 154(1)
SOCRATES AND PLATO
Socrates and Plato: an introduction 155(9)
Melissa Lane
Approaches to Platonic interpretation 155(2)
The chronology of Plato"s dialogues 157(3)
The Socratic problem revisited 160(2)
The death of Socrates 162(2)
Socrates 164(26)
Terry Penner
The discontinuity between `Socratic" intellectualism and `mature Platonic" irrationalism about human behaviour 165(6)
Some continuities between `Socratic" and `mature Platonic" thought: (i) the centrality of the question of the teaching of virtue, and (ii) the sciences and idealization 171(3)
A further continuity between the `Socratic" dialogues and the middle and late dialogues: (iii) the sciences and the good 174(5)
Socrates" response to the democratic political theory of the teaching of virtue which Protagoras propounds in the Protagoras 179(3)
The political philosophy of Plato"s Apology and Crito and another continuity between Socrates and the mature Plato: (iv) the attitude towards practical politics 182(7)
Conclusion 189(1)
Approaching the Republic 190(43)
Malcolm Schofield
Introduction 190(2)
Gorgias and Menexenus 192(7)
Republic: a sketch 199(4)
The problem 203(4)
The response: (i) a first model 207(6)
The response: (ii) a causal story 213(4)
The digression: (i) unity and the good city 217(7)
The digression: (ii) philosopher rulers 224(4)
The response: (iii) justice and the city within 228(5)
The Politicus and other dialogues 233(25)
Christopher Rowe
The definition of the `statesman" in the Politicus 234(5)
The myth of the Politicus and other political myths 239(5)
King or law? 244(7)
The statesman as director and weaver 251(3)
The Politicus, the Timaeus-Critias, and the Laws 254(4)
The Laws 258(35)
Andre Laks
A singular work 258(2)
The structure and content of the Laws 260(7)
Three models for interpreting the Laws: completion, revision, implementation 267(8)
Man and god: the anthropology of the Laws 275(3)
Political institutions 278(7)
The forms of political speech: what is a preamble? 285(6)
Conclusion 291(2)
Plato and practical politics 293(10)
Malcolm Schofield
Cleitophon and Minos 303(7)
Christopher Rowe
ARISTOTLE
Aristotle: an introduction 310(11)
Malcolm Schofield
Politics, the legislator, and the structure of the Politics 310(5)
Sitz im Leben 315(3)
Aristotle"s analytical models 318(3)
Naturalism 321(23)
Fred D. Miller. Jr
`Nature" in Aristotle"s natural philosophy 322(3)
The naturalness of the polis 325(7)
The naturalness of the household 332(6)
Nature and education 338(6)
Justice and the polis 344(22)
Jean Roberts
Natural and conventional justice 345(5)
Justice as a virtue of individuals 350(3)
Individuals as citizens 353(2)
Just individuals and just citizens 355(5)
Justice and the distribution of power in the city 360(6)
Aristotelian constitutions 366(24)
Christopher Rowe
Introduction: the nature of the Politics 366(2)
Aristotle and Plato 368(3)
Kingship, aristocracy and polity 371(7)
Mixed and `deviant" constitutions 378(6)
`Polity" 384(2)
The absolutely best constitution 386(1)
The ideal and the actual 387(3)
The Peripatos after Aristotle 390(11)
Christopher Rowe
The fate of Aristotle"s writings 390(1)
Aristotle"s successors in the Peripatos 391(10)
PART II THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN WORLDS
Introduction: the Hellenistic and Roman periods 401(14)
Peter Garnsey
The Cynics 415(20)
John Moles
The problem of evidence 415(2)
Reconstructing Cynicism 417(6)
The Cynics and politics 423(9)
Significance and influence 432(3)
Epicurean and Stoic political thought 435(22)
Malcolm Schofield
Introduction 435(2)
Epicureanism 437(6)
Zeno"s Republic 443(3)
Later Hellenistic Stoicism 446(7)
Roman epilogue 453(4)
Kings and constitutions: Hellenistic theories 457(20)
David E. Hahm
Kingship theories 458(6)
Constitutional theory 464(13)
Cicero 477(40)
E. M. Atkins
Introduction 477(1)
The historical background 478(3)
The aristocratic code 481(2)
Cicero"s early career 483(4)
The writings of the fifties 487(15)
The civil war and its aftermath 502(1)
Philosophy for Romans 503(11)
Conclusion 514(3)
Reflections of Roman political thought in Latin historical writing 517(15)
Thomas Wiedemann
Seneca and Pliny 532(27)
Miriam Griffin
De Clementia 535(8)
Seneca"s eulogies and Pliny"s Panegyricus 543(2)
De Beneficiis 545(6)
Pliny"s correspondence 551(4)
Seneca on public versus private life 555(3)
Conclusion 558(1)
Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the early empire 559(26)
Bruno Centrone
Preliminary considerations 559(2)
Philo of Alexandria 561(6)
Pseudo-Pythagorean literature 567(8)
Plutarch 575(8)
Conclusions 583(2)
Josephus 585(12)
Tessa Rajak
The place of political thought in Josephus" writings 585(1)
Greek-Jewish thought 586(1)
Leading ideas in Josephus 587(10)
Stoic writers of the imperial era 597(19)
Christopher Gill
Introduction 597(4)
Musonius Rufus 601(2)
Dio 603(4)
Epictetus 607(4)
Marcus Aurelius 611(5)
The jurists 616(19)
David Johnston
Introduction 616(2)
General theory of law 618(7)
Public law and private law 625(7)
Conclusions 632(3)
Christianity 635(26)
Frances Young
A political movement? 635(2)
Political attitudes in the New Testament 637(3)
Developments under persecution 640(10)
The response to Constantine 650(7)
The separation of spheres 657(4)
Epilogue 661(68)
Malcolm Schofield
Julian and Themistius 661(4)
Augustine 665(6)
Conclusion 671(1)
Bibliographies
Archaic and Classical Greece
The beginnings (Introduction and chs. 1--7) 672(26)
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (chs. 8-19) 698(11)
The Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (chs. 20-31 and Epilogue) 709(20)
Index 729