Plutarch's politics : between city and empire / Hugh Liebert, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781316563120
- 131656312X
- 9781316795279
- 1316795276
- Plutarch -- Political and social views
- Plutarch. Lycurgus and Numa
- Plutarch
- Lycurgus and Numa (Plutarch)
- Plutarchus 45-120
- Plutarque, (0046?-0120?) -- Pensée politique et sociale
- Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- To 1500
- City-states -- Political aspects
- Cités-États -- Aspect politique
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory
- City-states -- Political aspects
- Political and social views
- Political science -- Philosophy
- Politische Philosophie
- To 1500
- 938.009/9 23
- JC71.P7 L53 2016
- POL010000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Electronic-Books | OPJGU Sonepat- Campus | E-Books EBSCO | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editions and abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Outline of the Argument; Plutarch Studies; Part I; 2 Ancients and Moderns; 1. The Decline and Renaissance of Classicism; Plutarch among "The Ancients"; 2. Plutarch's World; 3. The Parallel Lives as Political Philosophy; 4. The Politics of the Parallel Lives; 3 Ambition and Political Form; 1. Empire and Liberalism; Hobbes' Augustus; Hobbes' Legacy; 2. Democratic Honor; What Is Honor?; 3. The Idea of Political Form; Part II; 4 Lives.
1. The Last Spartan2. The Life as Portrait; 3. Sparta and Rome; 4. The Last Roman; 5 Lycurgus's Sparta; 1. Plutarch's Interlocutors; The Sparta of the Philosophers; Plutarch's Sparta; 2. The Birth of Sparta; Lycurgus's Revolution; Lycurgan Timocracy; 3. The Spartan Crisis; Lysander; Agesilaus; 4. Rebirth; 6 Numa's Rome; 1. The Roman Stasis; 2. Philosophia and Philotimia; Philosophoi, as Seen by Philotimoi; Philotimoi, as Seen by Philosophoi; 3. Numa's Political Theology; Gods and Lawgivers; Senators and Priests; 4. Pythagorean Politics; The Pythagorean Connection; Numa's Pythagoreanism.
5. The Twilight of Janus7 Parallels; 1. Parallelism and Pugilism; 2. Spartan Philosophy; 8 Conclusion; 1. Polis and Politeia; 2. A Political Science Altogether New; 3. The Renaissance of Spartan Philosophy; Bibliography; Index.
Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome.
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide
There are no comments on this title.