I. Homer -- II. Hesiod, Solon, Heraclitus. Discontent promotes the growth of political thought : the people and the individual -- III. The new freedom. Equality or order? Herodotus and Aeschylus -- IV. Protagoras, the first great political thinker : man's responsibility. Other pre-Socratics. Democritus. The background of Socrates -- V. Antiphon and others. The right of the stronger and the future of the polis. Socrates, Euripides -- VI. Thucydides and statesmen of his time -- VII. The aftermath of war. Federal and monarchical ideas. Plato's early life, Crito, Gorgias, the academy. Isocrates -- VIII. Plato's Republic -- IX. Xenophon. Plato's Politicus, or. Statesman. Plato and Syracuse. -- X. Plato's Laws -- XI. Aristotle -- XII. Alexander the Great and the effect of his conquests. Hellenistic monarchy and Hellenistic cities. Philosophical schools, old and new, and their relation to politeia -- XIII. Greek political thought at Rome. Polybius, Panaetius, Posidonius, Cicero, Philodemus, Lucretius -- XIV. Hellenistic monarchy again. Jewish influences. Monarchical writings of obscure date and origin. Philo of Alexandria -- XV. The early Roman Empire.
This book gives a general survey of political thought from Homer to the beginning of the Christian era. To the evidence of the philosophers is added that of Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Polybius and others whose writings illustrate the course of Greek political thinking in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. This re-issues the second, updated edition of 1967
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