The first valuable contribution the Greeks made to political study was that they invented it. It is not too much to say that, before fifth-century Greece, politics did not exist. Rameses and Nebuchadnezzar, Croesus the Lydian and Cyrus the Persian, ruled over great empires; but within their dominions there were no politics because there were no public affairs. There were only the private affairs of the sovereign and his ruling class. Government and all that pertained to it, from military service and taxation to the supply of women for the royal harem, was simply the expression of the power and desire of the ruler. The great advance made by Greece was to have recognized that public or common interests exist and to have provided, first for their management, and secondly for their study.
LIBRARY
HOMER
HESIOD
ORPHICA
ARCHILOCHUS
SAPPHO
ALCAEUS
ANAXIMANDER
XENOPHANES
HERACLITUS
PARMENIDES
EMPEDOCLES
ANAXAGORAS
AESCHYLUS
SOPHOCLES
EURIPIDES
THUCYDIDES
HERODOTUS
ARISTOPHANES
PLATO
ARISTOTLE
HESIOD
ORPHICA
ARCHILOCHUS
SAPPHO
ALCAEUS
ANAXIMANDER
XENOPHANES
HERACLITUS
PARMENIDES
EMPEDOCLES
ANAXAGORAS
AESCHYLUS
SOPHOCLES
EURIPIDES
THUCYDIDES
HERODOTUS
ARISTOPHANES
PLATO
ARISTOTLE
PHILO
EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS
IGNATIUS THEOPHORUS
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
ORIGEN
PLOTINUS
ATHANASIUS THE GREAT
GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN
BASIL THE GREAT
GREGORY OF NYSSA
MACARIUS THE GREAT
ECUMENICAL SYNODS : THESYMBOL OF FAITH
CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA
PROCLUS
ROMANOS MELODOS
DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE
MAXIMUS CONFESSOR
PETER DAMASCENE
SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN
GREGORY PALAMAS
NICHOLAS CABASILAS
MANUEL II PALAEOLOGUS
GENNADIUS SCHOLARIUS
DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS
CAVAFY
PAPATSONIS
EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS
IGNATIUS THEOPHORUS
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
ORIGEN
PLOTINUS
ATHANASIUS THE GREAT
GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN
BASIL THE GREAT
GREGORY OF NYSSA
MACARIUS THE GREAT
ECUMENICAL SYNODS : THESYMBOL OF FAITH
CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA
PROCLUS
ROMANOS MELODOS
DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE
MAXIMUS CONFESSOR
PETER DAMASCENE
SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN
GREGORY PALAMAS
NICHOLAS CABASILAS
MANUEL II PALAEOLOGUS
GENNADIUS SCHOLARIUS
DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS
CAVAFY
PAPATSONIS
© 2022 ELLOPOS