Cicero’s Republic (BICS Supplement 76)

This collection of 6 essays reflects the recent revival of interest in the political works of Cicero and the attempt to bring fresh ideas and interpretations to their study. Contents: Original version of the De Re Publica and the De Legibus (P L Schmidt); Were Cicero’s laws the laws of Cicero’s Republic? (J G F Powell); Cicero on the origins of Rome (T J Cornell); Carneades in Rome - some unresolved problems (J Glucker); Citizen and Commonwealth in De Re Publica, Book 4 (J E G Zetzel); De Re Publica I.39 in medieval and renaissance political thought