The Stoic Idea of the City

by Malcolm Schofield

Book Overview

The Stoic Idea of the City offers the first systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrating on Zeno's Republic. Renowned classical scholar Malcolm Schofield brings together scattered and underused textual evidence, examining the Stoic ideals that initiated the natural law tradition of Western political thought. A new foreword by Martha Nussbaum and a new epilogue written by the author further secure this text as the standard work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226740064
• ISBN13: 9780226740065
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"