LA THEORIE DES FORMES POLITIQUES DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ GRECQUE (PLATON, ARISTOTE ET POLYBE)
THE THEORY OF GOVERNMENTAL FORMS IN GREEK ANTIQUITY (PLATO, ARISTOTLE AND POLYBE)

Summary/Abstract: The Theory of Governmental Forms in Greek Antiquity (Plato, Aristotle and Polybe). This paper is an account on the configuration of the philosophy of history in Antiquity. It concerns the different concepts of history as images of the theory of governmental forms. According to Plato the political time is mainly shaped following the soul’s nature, and, according to Aristotle, following the social conflicts; the intellectual sources of the two philosophers were exploited by Polybe in his ambitious attempt to explain through a philosophical theory of history the success of Rome: making of the entire world a unique history through the military conquests which joined cultures and geographies.

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