The Domesticated Brain: A Pelican Introduction (Pelican Books)

Melissa Lane

GREEK AND ROMAN POLITICAL IDEAS

Where do our ideas about politics come from?

What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans?

How should we exercise power?

Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught for fifteen years at Cambridge University, where she also studied as a Marshall and Truman scholar. The historian Richard Tuck called her book Eco-Republic ‘a virtuoso performance by one of our best scholars of ancient philosophy’.