Roman Political Thought

Dean Hammer is John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania. He is author of The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory (1998); The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002); and Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), and editor of A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (2014). From 1999 to 2000, he was a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies and is currently on the editorial board of Polity. His articles on ancient and modern political thought have been published in a variety of edited volumes and journals, including Political Theory; the American Journal of Philology; Historia; Phoenix; Arethusa; the Review of Politics; Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies; the Classical Journal; Classical World; Contemporary Politics; Theory, Culture, and Society; and the American Journal of Semiotics.

1. Cicero: to save the res publica; 2. Lucretius: the poetics of power: 3. Sallust: giving endurance to memory; 4. Virgil: politics, violence, and memory; 5. Livy: political thought as remedium; 6. Seneca and jurisdiction; 7. Tacitus: the political psychology of despotism; 8. Marcus Aurelius and the cosmopolis; 9. Augustine: political thought as confession.