A history of political thought - Janet Coleman

In this volume, Coleman discusses the acknowledged great worksof Greek, Roman, and early Christian writers to show how thehistorical contexts in which certain ideas about ethics andpolitics became dominant or fell from dominance, help to explainthe ideas themselves. Throughout she draws on recent scholarlycommentaries written by specialists in philosophy, contemporarypolitical theory, classical languages and cultures, and on ancientand early Christian history and theology. Janet Coleman shows thatthe Greeks and Romans' arguments can be seen as logical andcoherent if we can grasp the questions they thought itimportant to answer.