LoginTHE ANCIENT ETHNOSTATE — Biopolitical Thought in Classical Greece
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Biopolitics is as old as Western civilization itself. Twenty-five centuries ago, the Greeks ordered their societies according to ideals that enabled them to survive and thrive in a violent world: the rearing and education of children with a view to excellence and the common good, solidarity with kin, the cultivation of civic identity, and an intense patriotism inseparable from manly virtue. In all this, the Greeks had hereditarian insights into human nature that strikingly prefigured Darwinian science.
The Ancient Ethnostate is an evolutionary survey of this golden thread in Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle. Above all
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