Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the e

Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

The book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Early Modern period is presented in a translation by J

Examines Aristotle's approaches to how to develop a political community based on the notions of justice and friendship.