ABSTRACT

Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what extent the Greeks and Romans deal with the same issues as modern political thinkers.

chapter |2 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|25 pages

EUBOULIA IN THE ILIAD

chapter 2|18 pages

THE DISAPPEARING PHILOSOPHER-KING

chapter 3|15 pages

ZENO OF CITIUM’S ANTI-UTOPIANISM

chapter 4|11 pages

PLATO ON THE ECONOMY

chapter 8|16 pages

SHARING IN THE CONSTITUTION

chapter 10|14 pages

CICERO’S DEFINITION OF RES PUBLICA