Commentary

• “Ciceros Staatsdefinition.”

  - Rudolf Stark, “Ciceros Staatsdefinition,” La Nouvelle Clio 6: 56-69., 1954.

• “Metaphor in Cicero’s De Re Publica.”

  - Robert L. Gallagher, “Metaphor in Cicero’s De Re Publica,” Classical Quarterly 51.2: 509-19., 2001.

• Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders

  - Harvey Mansfield, Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders. Ithaca, N.Y., 2001.
  Overview: –  Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive study on Machiavelli’s controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy. These discourses, considered by some to be Machiavelli’s most… More

• The Roman Philosophers: From the Time of Cato the Censor to the Death of Marcus Aurelius.

  - Mark Morford, The Roman Philosophers: From the Time of Cato the Censor to the Death of Marcus Aurelius. London, 2002.
  Overview: –  The philosophers of the Roman world were asking questions whose answers had practical effects on people’s lives in antiquity, and which still influence our thinking to this day. In spite of being neglected in the modern era, this… More

• “The development of the idea of citizens’ rights.”

  - Annabel Brett, “The development of the idea of citizens’ rights,” in States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects, eds. Q. Skinner and B. Stråth. Cambridge University Press: 97-112., 2003.
  Overview: States and Citizens offers a coherent survey of perceptions of the state, its history, its theoretical underpinnings, and its prospects in the contemporary world. The coverage of the Western European experience is thorough and wide-ranging, with the… More

• “Roman philosophy.”

  - Arthur A. Long, “Roman philosophy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, ed. D. N. Sedley. Cambridge: 184-210., 2003.   “Roman philosophy.”

• Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome.

  - Catherine E. W. Steel, Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome. London, 2005.
  Overview: –  M. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome… More

• “A new kind of model: Cicero’s Roman constitution in De Republica.”

  - Elisabeth Asmis,  “A new kind of model: Cicero’s Roman constitution in De Republica,” The American Journal of Philology,  126.3: 377-416., 2005.
   
  Overview: –  This article attempts to answer the question: What makes the Roman constitution “by far the best,” as Cicero claims in “De republica”? Following Polybius, Cicero analyses the Roman constitution as a mixed… More

• Cicero and the Jurists: From Citizens’ Law to the Lawful State.

  - Jill Harries, Cicero and the Jurists: From Citizens’ Law to the Lawful State. Duckworth, 2006.London, 2006.
  Overview: –  This book traces Cicero’s thought on law as an advocate; as the friend of jurists; as writer on the philosophy of the ‘higher law’; and as a politician who both asserted and subverted the rights of citizens under the law.… More

• Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius.

  - Robert A. Kaster, Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius. Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2006.
  Review: “…constantly enlightening and extremely broad in its scope…” – Bryn Mawr Reviews   Overview: –  This volume contains a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero’s defense of Publius Sestius against… More

• “Law in Roman philosophy.”

  - Inwood, B. and F. D. Miller, Jr., “Law in Roman philosophy,” in Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence Vol. VI: A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics. Dordrecht: 133-65., 2007.
  Overview: –  Legal philosophy in late antiquity must be understood in relation to Roman law, a system which continued to evolve from the traditional founding of Rome (753 B.C.) until the fall of the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire (A.D. 1453). Rome… More

• Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

  - Daniel J. Kapust, Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Cambridge; New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  Overview: Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome’s three most important Latin historians – Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus – in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on… More