title: Ancient Greek Thought: Insights for the General Reader
author: Sir Basil Markesinis
description: Sir Basil Markesinis, has held tenured positions in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, University of London, Leiden (in the Netherlands) and the Law School of the University of Texas at Austin. He has also held for a number of years part time Chairs at the Universities of Paris (Sorbonne), Munich (Germany), Siena and Rome (Italy) and the Cornell Law School. His forty eight books and over one hundred and fifty articles have dealt with topics such as law, the travelling of ideas, psychobiography, the classics, and art and have earned him Fellowships in the Academies of Athens, Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Rome (Lincei) as well the Athens Archaelogical Society and the American Law Institute. In the New Years Honours List of 2005 he was Knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for exceptional Services to International Relations and has also received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of France and Italy as well as that of the Grand Officers Cross of the German Order of Merit.
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  # SCIPIO
  
  ROSS LECKIE
  
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  ﻿τίζ γὰρ οὓτωζ ὑπάρχει ϕαûλοζ ἢ ῤᾴθνμοζ ὰνθρώπων ὃζ οὐκ ἂν βούλοιτο γνŵναι πŵζ
  καὶ τίνι γένει πολιτείαζ ἐπικρατηθέν-τα σχεδὸν ἅπαντα τὰ κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην
  ἐν οὐχ ὅλοιζ πεν-τήκοντα και τρισὶν ἔτεσιν ὑπὸ μίαν ἀρχὴν ἔπεσε την Ῥωμαίων, ὃ
  πρότερον οὐχ εὑρίσκεται γεγονόζ;
  
  Surely no one can be so worthless or apathetic as not to want to know by what
  means and under what system of government the Romans, in less than fifty-three
  years [220–167 BC], succeeded in bringing under their rule almost the entire
  inhabited world, an achievement without parallel in human history?
  
  POLYBIUS, _Histories_ 1.5
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # CONTENTS
  
  [Prologue](9781847676894_prologue.html#rw-title-block_123022-00001)
  
  [Forming](9781847676894_chapter_01_split_000.html#rw-title-block_123023-00001)
  
  [Proving](9781847676894_chapter_02_split_000.html#rw-title-block_123024-00001)
  
  [Doing](9781847676894_c