Beginning with Homer and ending in late antiquity with Christian and pagan reflections on divine and human order, this volume is the first general and comprehensive treatment of Rome ever to be published in English. Its international team of distinguished scholars includes historians of law, politics, culture and religion, as well as philosophers. The volume will long remain an accessible and authoritative guide to Greek and Roman thinking about government and community.

Review

'It would be hard to think how this superb collection of essays about Greek and Roman political thought could be improved. ... There could be no better introduction than this collection of well-written, scholarly and absorbing essays.' Literary Review

'It is impossible to do justice here to the sweep of this volume ... It belongs on the shelf of every student of politics.' The Anglo-Hellenic Review

'... is nothing less than the very first general and comprehensive treatment of its subject in the English language ... The broad and inclusive conception of [the book] is reflected not only in the range of authors discussed, but also in the heterogeneous authorship of the volume itself ... It is not easy to do justice to a volume of this kind ... There can be no doubt that this well-organized, accessible and carefully produced volume will remain one of the standard overviews of Greek and Roman political thought for years to come.' Arctos

剋裏斯托弗·羅（Christopher Rowe），英國杜拉姆大學古典學與古代史學係希臘語教授，專長為古希臘哲學史和古典文獻學，以研究亞裏士多德和柏拉圖知名。其主要著作包括《優德米亞倫理學和尼可馬可倫理學：亞裏士多德思想發展研究》、《柏拉圖：泰阿泰德與智者篇》、《柏拉圖與哲學寫作的藝術》，曾注疏赫西奧德的作品和柏拉圖的《斐多篇》、《政治傢篇》、《斐德羅篇》等；除本書外，他還主編瞭《柏拉圖政治傢篇讀本》。

馬爾科姆·斯科菲爾德（Malcolm Schofield）,劍橋大學聖約翰學院研究員，古代哲學教授，主要研究領域為古代政治思想和西塞羅哲學，其重要著作包括《柏拉圖的政治哲學》、《拯救城市》、《斯多葛派的城市觀》、《論阿那剋薩哥拉》等。除本書外，還主編瞭《劍橋希臘化哲學史》、《前蘇格拉底哲學》。

晏紹祥，首都師範大學曆史學院教授，主要研究領域為古代希臘羅馬史，曾齣版《荷馬社會研究》、《古典民主與共和傳統》、《古典曆史研究史》等著作，譯作有《羅馬的遺産》、《早期希臘》、《古代世界的政治》、《羅馬共和國政製》等，並在《曆史研究》等多種刊物上發錶學術論文多篇。