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Such diagnostic tracing of Machiavelli's philosophy to his humours, passions or ambitions can seem simplistic, and quite unwarranted. This dislike of both Epicureanism as a political programme, and of Machiavelli's political philosophy as its descendant, can thus be jarring. The greater contribution of the volume will be to the study of Epicurean-Lucretian atomism and its legacies, rather than assessment of Machiavelli's political philosophy. Paul O Mahoney38 MARINO INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, DUBLIN Jason Hawke, Writing Authority: Elite Competition and Written Law in Early Greece (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011), x + 285 pp., $45.00. ISBN 9780875804385. The author (JH) states his thesis early and often: the appearance of written law in early Greece (the seventh and sixth centuries) was an elite response to elite concerns or anxieties in a period of rapid social change (pp. 4, 7 and passim). The thesis also has an equally emphasized negative correlate: the introduction of written law was not the result of elite abuse of power or of an emerging community or polis identity. The book is organized into six chapters -- the first two covering introductory material, the third (and longest) a discussion of dispute settlement in the time of Homer
Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013
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