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The Death and Life of the Polis
… is fundamentally important to Aristotle's political philosophy. The Naturalness Thesis is discussed in only one place by Aristotle, and it is found alongside two further claims—the claim that humans are the most political animal and the claim that the polis is naturally prior to the …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
This dissertation examines freedom and tyranny in ancient Greece and Persia by synthesizing ancient Near Eastern scholarship with a new reading of Herodotus's History. I argue, contrary to prevailing scholarly contentions, that Herodotus considered ancient Persia to be a free regime that possessed …