Table of Contents

Glossary
Abbreviations
Time chart
Introduction
1: Early Communities and States
2: Egypt
3: Mesopotamia, Assyria, Babylon
4: Iran
5: Israel
6: India
7: China
8: The Greeks
9: Rome
10: Greco-Roman Humanism
11: The Kingdom of heaven and the church of Christ
12: Themes: similarities and differences between cultures
13: Conclusion
Index

About the Author

Antony Black is Professor Emeritus in the History of Political Thought, School of Humanities, University of Dundee. He was Lecturer in Politics at University of Dundee from 1963 until retirement in 2000. 1975-76 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Administration, The American University, Washington DC., USA. 1980-81 Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Foundation. March-April 1993 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Jurisprudence, University of
Trento, Italy. 1993-7. Head of Dept. of Politics 1995-9 Book Review Editor of Early Modern History: Contacts, Contrasts and Comparisons (Brill).

Reviews

In this ambitious book, Antony Black provides a short and global explanation of ancient political thought. He should be considered one of the greatest and most consistent specialists in medieval political thought, but in this book he shows an impressive comprehension of the sources of ancient cultures ... can be highly recommended.
*Rafael Ramis Barceló, Political Studies Review*

admirably ambitious ... This is not a merely encyclopaedic account of ancient thought but a genuinely comparative analysis, with the constant attention to the divergences from basic similarities that creates the exciting sense of a single argument.
*Richard Seaford, History of Political Thought*