The Life of Roman Republicanism (ebook)

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"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

One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Emily Wilson

"As a demonstration of how reading Roman literature becomes absorbing political argument, this book succeeds brilliantly. Joy Connolly possesses a keen mind and her approach is informed by an astonishing stock of contemporary intellectual perspectives. She is also a deeply imaginative reader with a gift for explaining complex ideas lucidly and compellingly. I learned a great deal from this book: about Hannah Arendt and Philip Pettit as well as about Cicero, Sallust, and Horace."--Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University

"Addressing some of the largest and most difficult questions of politics, The Life of Roman Republicanism radically and successfully alters the politics and political theory conventionally associated with writers such as Cicero, Sallust, and Horace. Owing to its choice of texts, attention to context, and practices of interpretation, this ambitious book contributes significantly to the fields of classics, rhetoric, and political theory, as well as history, literature, and comparative literature."--Jill Frank, University of South Carolina

"Connolly’s argument is quite novel and her conclusions are convincing. She demonstrates with surprising precision the presence of particular democratic ideas, many of them quite counterintuitive, in the Roman texts she analyzes."--Andrew M. Riggsby, University of Texas at Austin

"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."--Choice0PREFACE IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XVII
INTRODUCTION 1
1 Where Politics Begins: Cicero's Republic 23
2 Justice in the World: The Execution of Jugurtha 65
3 Non-Sovereign Freedom in Horace's Satires 1 115
4 Dividual Advocacy 155 5
Imagination, Finitude, Responsibility, Irony: Cicero's pro Marcello 173
CONCLUSION The Republic Remastered 203
BIBLIOGRAPHY 209
INDEX 219