The Life of Roman Republicanism

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In recent years, Roman political thought has attracted increased attention as intellectual historians and political theorists have explored the influence of the Roman republic on major thinkers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Held up as a "third way" between liberalism and communitarianism, neo-Roman republicanism promises useful, persua

Joy Connolly is dean for the humanities and professor of classics at New York University. She is the author of The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome (Princeton).

One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Emily Wilson "Joy Connolly's The Life of Roman Republicanism (Princeton), a wide-ranging look at Cicero, Sallust and Horace (and many others) in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, provides an inspiring suggestion that rethinking Roman political thought may help us change our own (North American) ideas of what it might mean to be a citizen."--Emily Wilson "Through a flow of brilliant, allusive language and analysis, Connolly brings together Cicero, Sallust, and Horace with Ricoeur, Arendt, Kant, the Shakespearean Stanley Cavell, and Occupy Wall Street... Connolly's use of modern theorists ably demonstrates the links between modern and ancient thought, and the examples illuminate each other excitingly."--Choice