Politeia in Greek and Roman philosophy / edited by Verity Harte and Melissa Lane
Imprint
London : Cambridge University Press, c2013
Descript
xv, 399 pages ; 24 cm
SUMMARY
Explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire range of Greek and Roman thought
CONTENT
The political art in Plato's Republic -- Putting history in its place: Plato, Thucydides, and the Athenian politeia -- Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarch' Lycurgus -- The body politic: Aetius on Alcmaeon on isonomia and monarchia -- Latin philosophy and Roman law -- The platonic manufacture ideology, or how to assemble awkward truth and wholesome falsehood -- Plato's politics of ignorance -- The political skill of protagorar -- Proclus and politics -- Relativism in Plato's Protagoras -- Justice writ large and small in Republic 4 -- An aesthetic reading of Aristotle's ethics -- The stoic sage in the original position -- Aristotle on the natural sociability, skills and intelligence of animals -- Gods and men in Xenophanes -- Socrates and his gods: from the Euthyphro to the Eudemian ethics -- The atheist underground