Saving the City: Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms

by Malcolm Schofield

Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what extent the Greeks and Romans deal with the same issues as modern political thinkers.

Genres: Philosophy

258 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 12, 1998

About the author

Malcolm Schofield is a British academic specializing in Ancient Philosophy. Having taught at Cornell University and the University of Oxford, he joined the University of Cambridge in 1972 as a lecturer in Classics and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.