Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought

David Carter teaches Classics at the University of Reading. He is the author of The Politics of Greek Tragedy (2007) and editor of Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics (2011). Rachel Foxley is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Reading. She is the author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution (2013) and has written widely on classical republicanism in the seventeenth century. Liz Sawyer was an Associate Researcher at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies at Oxford University until 2021. Her translation of selected writings by Plutarch is forthcoming in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series.

Notes on contributors



Introduction



Part 1: The Reproduction of Greek Political Thought



1 Sovereignty, Rebellion and Golden Age: Hesiod’s Legacy

 Ioannis D. Evrigenis

2 ‘The most politic historiographer’: Thucydides and Political Thought

 Neville Morley

3 Platonic Revivalists? The Cases of Simone Weil and Leo Strauss

 Robert A. Ballingall



Part 2: Greek Thought in New Environments



4 Athenian Democracy and Its Critics in Republican Rome

 Jed W. Atkins

5 Greek Legacies in the English Republic: John Milton and James Harrington

 Rachel Foxley

6 Thinking about the Public Realm in Early Sixteenth-Century France: Plutarch and Geoffroy Tory

 Rebecca Kingston

7 Greek Political Thought and Modern Ideas of Liberty

 Paschalis M. Kitromilides

8 No Trojan Horses: the Legacy of Greek Political Thought in the Early American Republic

 Arlene W. Saxonhouvi Contents

9 Islamic Political Thought and the Greek Legacy: the Social Covenant and Charismatic Authority

 Vasileios Syros



Part 3: Variation and Adaptation



10 Grotius, Hobbes and Rawls: Aristotelian Justice and Social Contract Theory

 Alan Cromartie

11 ‘The relevance of relevance’: Trends in Higher Education and the Legacy of Greek Political Thought in England and the USA, 1900–1970

 Liz Sawyer

12 Plato’s Political Works in Nineteenth-Century Polish Thought

 Tomasz Mróz

13 Classicising the Radical Imaginary: the Legacy of Athens in the Thought of Cornelius Castoriadis and Jacques Rancière

 Carol Atack



Part 4: Greek Thought and the Potential for Dissent



14 Democracy’s Forgotten Futures and the Greek Political Legacy or, What Histories of Dēmokratia Do Contemporary Critiques of Democracy Need?

 Alexandra Lianeri

15 Social Theory and the Politics of Recognition in the Writings of Aristotle

 Tony Burns

16 The Political Legacies of Greek Tragedy: Building the Beautiful City, and Being Thrown out of It

 Barbara Goff



Index