| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Cicero's Significance -- Ciceronian Society -- The Changing Social Structure -- Some Characteristics of Roman Government -- The Late Republican Time of Troubles -- Cicero's Life and Works -- Biographical Milestones and Intellectual Influences -- Philosophy as Solace and Guide -- Principal Social and Political Writings -- Law, Justice, and Human Nature -- Natural Law and Natural Justice -- Conception of Man -- Moral Equality and Social Inequality -- The Socially Superior and Inferior -- Vulgar and Gentlemanly Callings -- The Model Gentleman -- Private Property and Its Accumulation -- The Finances and Properties of Cicero -- An Enlightened Economic Individualism -- Town versus Country -- The Idea of the State -- Dedication to the State and Politics -- Definition of the State -- Purpose of the State -- State, Government, and Society -- Types of State -- The Three Simple Constitutions -- Forms of Tyranny -- Essentials of the Mixed Constitution -- The Doctrine prior to Cicero -- The Roman Mixture -- Institutions of the Ideal Mixture -- The Art of Politics -- Nature of Politics -- Violence as a Political Instrument -- Major Ends of Statecraft -- Rudiments of Economic Policy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. |
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. |
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106 B.C.-43 B.C. |
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C.
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Rome -- Social conditions -- 510-30 B.C.
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Political science -- Rome -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
510-30 B.C |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Political science.
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Political science. |
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Social sciences.
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Social sciences. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wood, Neal. Cicero's social and political thought. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1988 0520060423 (DLC) 87005968 (OCoLC)15488930 |
| ISBN |
9780520911284 (electronic book) |
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0520911288 (electronic book) |
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0585124116 (electronic book) |
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9780585124117 (electronic book) |
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0520060423 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520060425 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520074279 (print) |
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0520074270 (print) |
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