Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly established as the major student textbook series in political theory. It aims to make available to students all the most important texts in the history of western political thought, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. All the familiar classic texts will be included, but the series seeks at the same time to enlarge the conventional canon by incorporating an extensive range of less well-known works, many of them never before available in a modern English edition. Wherever possible, texts are published in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissioned for the series. Each volume contains a critical introduction together with chronologies, biographical sketches, a guide to further read-ing and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus. When completed the series will aim to offer an outline of the entire evolution of western political thought.

本丛书囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。

Preface

Introduction

Principal dates

Bibliographical note

Glossary

Table of equivalents

Part I: Early poetry

 Homer

 Hesiod

 Archilochus

 Tyrtaeus

 Solon

 Theognis

 Hymn to Hephaestus

 Simonides

 Xenophanes

 Pindar

Part II: Tragedy

 Aeschylus

 Sophocles

 Euripides

 Other tragic fragments

Part III: History and folklore

 Herodotus

 Thucydides

 The Old Oligarch

 Aesop

Part IV: Philosophy and science

 Heraclitus

 Democritus

 Medical writers from the Hippocratic corpus

 Antisthenes

Part V: Sophists

 Protagoras

  Gorgias

  Prodicus

  Hippias

  Antiphon

  Thrasymachus

  Evenus

  Critias

  Lycophron

  Alcidamas

 Anonymus lamblichi

  Dissoi Logoi

  From unknown authors

Index