Written for scholars and advanced students working in both classics and political theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Cicero's central works of political philosophy. It demonstrates that Cicero's Republic and Laws are critical for understanding the history of the concepts of rights, the mixed constitution and natural law.

Theodosius II was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Although often dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual, he ruled an empire which retained its vitality and integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' success in a century that stands between the classical world and Byzantium.

The first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan, integrating theorisations from Longinus to Lyotard to explore the concept's ethical ambivalences and establish the Bellum Civile as a central text in the history of the sublime. Of interest to classicists and readers in comparative literature, reception studies and critical theory.

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evidence of the popular reception of Parmenides; and scholars in theatre studies new evidence that explicit theorizing about theatre begins with a comic appropriation of Eleatic ideas about reality and illusion.

This first book in English dedicated to philosophy in Cicero's letters addresses classicists, philosophers, political theorists, and historians. Cicero's political and philosophical activities are reassessed, with special attention given to the civil war and Caesar. A new picture emerges of Cicero the philosopher and philosophy's place in Roman political culture.

English speakers find it hard to explain why they say something happens at a particular time, but on a certain day, and in a given year; however this book does just that for Ancient Greek, describing not only variation among Classical authors, but also diachronic change in the following centuries.