Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws are his most important works of political philosophy. The present volume offers a scholarly reconstruction of the fragments of On the Commonwealth and a masterly translation of both dialogues. The texts are supported by a helpful, concise introduction, notes and other aids. Students in politics, philosophy, ancient history, law and classics will gain a new understanding of this seminal thinker thanks to Professor Zetzel's volume.
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Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws are his most important works of political philosophy. The present volume offers a scholarly reconstruction of the fragments of On the Commonwealth and a masterly translation of both dialogues, newly prepared by James E. G. Zetzel, Professor of Classics at Columbia University. The texts are supported by a helpful, concise introduction, notes and other aids; students in politics, philosophy, ancient history, law and classics will gain a new understanding of this seminal thinker thanks to Professor Zetzel's volume.
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This review is from: Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (Paperback)
Zetzel's edition of the Cicero's Republic and Laws contains all of the nice extras that go along with the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. It has helpful footnotes, biographical glossary, and an introduction into some of the difficulties that Zetzel faced as a translator. Zetzel has also supplemented the manuscript text of the Republic with fragments preserved in other writers to give some sense of what is missing.
The translation is one of the better ones I've seen, and I'm not sure that there is a better one. Zetzel found it impossible to translate res publica consistently, but does point out wherever it appears in the text in a footnote. This translation is not suited to the demands of in-depth interpretation, however. Zetzel translates both prudens and sapientia as wise or wisdom, for example, but not consistently. Both scientia and philosophia are translated as philosophy. These problems may cause some difficulty if the text is read too closely, but the general sense of Cicero's works won't be lost.
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When (and since) I was in college (a LONG time ago) reading the "classics" has been de-emphasized. This is a mistake. Now, in my 60s, I am finally reading works like this one, and learning just how much I have missed.
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1 [4.7fZiegler]. Augustine, Epist. 91.3: Take a brief look at that book On the Commonwealth, from which you drank up that attitude of a patriotic citizen, that there is for good men no limit or end of looking out for one's country. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pontifical law, best commonwealth, centuriate assembly, ballot law, dramatic date, mixed constitution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Twelve Tables, City of God, Tiberius Gracchus, Old Academy, Tusculan Disputations, Compare On the Commonwealth, Lucius Tarquinius, Second Punic War, Seven Sages, Antiochus of Ascalon, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Marcus Marcellus, Moral Letters, Servius Tullius New!
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1 [4.7fZiegler]. Augustine, Epist. 91.3: Take a brief look at that book On the Commonwealth, from which you drank up that attitude of a patriotic citizen, that there is for good men no limit or end of looking out for one's country. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pontifical law, best commonwealth, centuriate assembly, ballot law, dramatic date, mixed constitution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Twelve Tables, City of God, Tiberius Gracchus, Old Academy, Tusculan Disputations, Compare On the Commonwealth, Lucius Tarquinius, Second Punic War, Seven Sages, Antiochus of Ascalon, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Marcus Marcellus, Moral Letters, Servius Tullius New!
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- On the Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero on 54 pages
- The Dream of Scipio (Somnium Scipionis) (Studies in Hermetic Tradition) by Marcus Tullius Cicero on 7 pages
- The Stoic Idea of the City by Malcolm Schofield in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 161
- Tusculan disputations (Classical texts) by Marcus Tullius Cicero in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 71
- Moral Letters (Loeb Classical Library) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca on page 60, page 85, and page 102
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- Roman Philosophers by Mark Morford in Back Matter
- Roman Philosophers by Mark Morford in Back Matter
- The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore by Elaine Fantham on page 318
- The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore by Elaine Fantham on page 318
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