Politics Ancient and Modern

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.

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.