From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban
This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world. Part One defends a non-maximizing conce
In this study of vase painting produced in classical Athens, Smith (U. of Reading, the UK) has undertaken an analysis of the use of personifications, defined here as personifications of virtues, polit
