Politics ancient and modern

Author(s)

• Vidal-Naquet, Pierre

Bibliographic Information

Politics ancient and modern

Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; translated by Janet Lloyd

Polity Press, 1995

Other Title

Démocratie grecque vue d'ailleurs

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Written by one of the leading ancient historians in the world today, this book shows how politics in the ancient world has been interpreted and re-interpreted through the ages.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note. Acknowledgement. Introduction: Athenian Democracy in 1788. 1. Plato, History and the Historians. 2. Atlantis and the Nations. 3. The Enlightenment in the Greek City-state. 4. The Formation of Bourgeois Athens. 5. The Place of Greece in the Imaginary Representations of the Men of the Revolution. 6. From Paris to Athens and Back. 7. Renan and the Greek Miracle. Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA26258803
• ISBN:
  • 0745610803
• LCCN: 95034900
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA
• Pages/Volumes: 209 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 231
  • LCC : JC75.D36
  • DC20 : 320.438
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C
  • LCSH : Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C
  • LCSH : Democracy
  • LCSH : Asiatic mode of production