On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics: A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower - Paperbackby Mika Ojakangas (Author) This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas's argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as the western political thought itself: the politico philosophical categories of classical thought, particularly those of Plato and