Commentary

• “The education of statesmen in Cicero’s ‘De Republica.”

  - J. Jackson Barlow, “The education of statesmen in Cicero’s ‘De Republica’,” Polity 19.3: 353- 74, 1987.

• “Libertas.”

  - Peter A. Brunt, “Libertas,” in The Fall of the Roman Republic and Related Essays. Oxford: 281-350., 1988.

• “Cicero’s focus: from the best regime to the model statesman.”

  - Walter Nicgorski, “Cicero’s focus: from the best regime to the model statesman,” Political Theory 19: 230-51., 1991.

• Cicero: The Senior Statesman.

  - Thomas N. Mitchell, Cicero: The Senior Statesman. New Haven, 1991.

• “Cicero’s politics in De officiis.”

  - Anthony A. Long, “Cicero’s politics in De officiis,” in A. Laks and M. Schofield (1995), 213-40., 1995.
  Overview: –   Modern historians tend to be very severe in assessing Cicero’s political acumen, especially the stance he adopted at the end of his life. ‘In the Rome of Antony and Octavian he was an obstructive anachronism’, a man who… More

• Saving the City: Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms.

  - Malcolm Schofield, Saving the City: Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms. London and New York, 1999.
  Overview: –  A theory of the good society entails some account of how the various elements of a society are kept in harmony and how strife among citizens and groups of citizens is resolved. Malcolm Schofield’s Saving the City examines the ways… More