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040			_cNULRC
050			_aJC 73 .L36 2014
100			_aLane, Melissa _eauthor
245		4	_aThe Birth of politics : _beight greek and roman political ideas and why they matter / _cMelissa Lane
260			_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2014
300			_ax, 382 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c21 cm.
365			_bUSD10.51
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aIntroduction: Possibilities of power and purpose -- Justice -- Constitution -- Democracy -- Virtue -- Citizenship -- Cosmopolitanism -- Republic -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion: Futures of Greek and Roman pasts -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Athens map key -- Brief biographies of key persons, events and places -- Reference lists and abbreviations.
520			_a"[An introduction] to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire...[Lane] focuses on eight political ideas from the Greco-Roman world that are especially influential today...and describes how the ancient formulations of these ideas often challenge widely held modern assumptions"
650			_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE -- GREECE -- HISTORY
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