The Republic and The Laws (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Cicero; Rudd, Niall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019954011X ISBN 13: 9780199540112

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory, the work embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, on justice in society, and on the qualities needed in a statesman. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, which applies to all mankind, and sets out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic, already half in the realm of utopia.

This is the first complete English translation of both works for over sixty years and features a lucid Introduction, a Table of Dates, notes on the Roman constitution, and an Index of Names.

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About this title

About the Author:

Niall Rudd is Emeritus Professor of Latin at Bristol University. He has previously translated Juvenal's Satires for Oxford World's Classics. Jonathan Powell is Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is preparing a new text of De Republica and De Legibus for the Oxford
Classical Texts series.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 019954011X
• ISBN 13: 9780199540112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Powell Jonathan