On the Greek origins of biopolitics: a reinterpretation of the history of biopower

1. Introduction -- 2. Foucault on biopolitics -- 3. Aristotle's biopolitics of population -- 4. Plato's biopolitical state racism 1 : The republic -- 5. Plato's biopolitical state racism 2 : The laws -- 6. Platonic-Aristotelian biopolitical justice -- 7. Decline of biopolitics in late antiquity -- 8. Rebirth of biopolitics in medieval and early modern Europe -- 9. Conclusion.