Ancient India & Early Greece: A Historical-Comparative Approach to Political Thought and the Concept of Ruling

This talk will map out an analytic approach for political theory that combines the history of political ideas and cross-cultural, comparative political thought. Special attention will be given to the methodological and interpretive challenges confronting this approach, how and why it should be applied to ancient Greek and Indian political thought, and finally, its general analytic benefits for political theory.
Stuart Gray is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at UCSB.

This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.

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