Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists

Michael Gagarin, Paul Woodruff

Cambridge University Press, Sep 21, 1995 - History - 324 pages

This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedians, historians, medical writers and presocratic philosophers. Besides political theory, ancient political thought includes early sociology, anthropology, ethics and rhetoric, and the wide range of issues discussed includes the origin of human society, the origin of law, the nature of justice, the forms of good government, and the distribution of power among genders and social classes.

Contents

• Introduction: ix
• Principal dates: xxxii
• Table of equivalents: l
• Early poetry: 1
• Hymn to Hephaestus: 35
• History and folklore Herodotus: 77
• Thucydides: 86
• The Old Oligarch: 133
• Aesop: 145
• Philosophy and science Heraclitus: 151
• Democritus: 156
• Medical writers from the Hippocratic corpus: 164
• Antisthenes: 167
• Sophists Protagoras: 173
• Gorgias: 190
• Prodicus: 210
• Hippias: 215
• Antiphon: 218
• Thrasymachus: 254
• Evenus: 257
• Critias: 259
• Lycophron: 275
• Alcidamas: 276
• Anonymus Iamblichi: 290
• Dissoi Logoi: 296
• From unknown authors: 309
• Index: 313

Bibliographic information

• Title: Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists; Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists, Michael Gagarin
• Editors: Michael Gagarin, Paul Woodruff
• Translated by: Michael Gagarin, Paul Woodruff
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0521437687, 9780521437684
• Length: 324 pages
• Subjects: History / Social History; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Reference