The Place of Herodotus’ Constitutional Debate in the History of Political Ideas and the Emergence of Classical Social Theory

This paper investigates the question of which place in the history of political ideas may be assigned to the Constitutional Debate in Herodotus’ Histories, 3.80-82. It is shown that the Herodotean debate represents the earliest extant example of a social theory, in which a variety of distinctly soci...

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Main Author: Otto Linderborg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Center for Hellenic Studies 2019-12-01
Series:Akropolis
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Online Access:http://helenskestudije.me/ojs/index.php/jhs/article/view/43

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