The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights

by Rachel Hall Sternberg

2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Classics

Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane discourse date further back, to Classical Athens. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights analyzes the parallel confluences of cultural factors facing ancient Greeks and eighteenth-century Europeans that facilitated the creation and transmission...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477322914
• ISBN13: 9781477322918
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"