Commentary

• “How Machiavellian is Cicero?”

  - David Samuel Fott, “How Machiavellian is Cicero?,” in The Arts of Rule: Essays in Honor of Harvey C. Mansfield, eds. S. R. Krause and M. A. McGrail. Lanham, Md.: 149-65., 2009.
  Overview: –  Two generations of students inspired by Harvey Mansfield come together here to demonstrate how their diverse approaches illuminate the topic of the arts of rule and speak to the wide scope of Mansfield’s contributions. The essays… More

• Recovering the Ancient View of Founding: A Commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus

  - Timothy W.  Caspar, Recovering the Ancient View of Founding: A Commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus. Lanham, Md., 2011.
  Review: A discursive yet exclusively philosophical commentary on the arguments of the dialogue itself…. Overall Caspar offers a very successful challenge to the conventional view that Cicero’s Laws is a derivative or misconceived work of political… More