The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought

Stephen Salkever is Katharine Woodworth Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy, as well as numerous articles and chapters on ancient and modern political philosophy. His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center, and he has received teaching awards from Bryn Mawr and from CASE.

• Introduction Stephen Salkever; 1. Homer and political thought Dean Hammer; 2. Foundings vs. constitutions: ancient tragedy and the origins of political community Arlene W. Saxonhouse; 3. Most favored status in Herodotus and Thucydides: recasting the Athenian Tyrannicides through Solon and Pericles Norma Thompson; 4. Thucydides and political thought Gerald Mara; 5. 'This way of life, this contest': rethinking Socratic citizenship Susan Bickford; 6. The political drama of Plato's Republic David Roochnik; 7. Practical Plato Catherine H. Zuckert; 8. Reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a single course of lectures: rhetoric, politics, and philosophy Stephen Salkever; 9. Lived excellence in Aristotle's Constitution of Athens: why the Encomium of Theramenes matters Jill Frank and S. Sara Monoson; 10. The virtue politics of democratic Athens Ryan K. Balot; 11. Origins of rights in ancient political thought Fred D. Miller, Jr.; 12. The emergence of natural law and the Cosmopolis Eric Brown.

'… a rich and illuminating volume that offers fresh and useful insight into the political ideals and practices of the ancient Greek world.' Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought