This book, one of the most comprehensive works in its area and widely regarded as a standard source reference, is a clear, accurate exposition of Greek political thought. In addition to extensive, point by point discussion of the Republic and the Politics, it provides critical examinations of the origin of these ideas in the Greek political experience and in the contributions of other thinkers (Socrates and the pre-Socratics; Heraclitus, Pythagoras and other Sophists; the Cyrenaics; the Encyclopedia): full coverage of Aristotle's Ethics and of the most crucial of the Platonic Dialogues; and considerations of how Greek ideas were later modifiedby Aquinas, Marsilio of Padua, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Hobbes, Rousseau and Hegel.