Saving the city : philosopher-kings and other classical paradigms / Malcolm Schofield.

"First published in 1999. First issued in paperback ed 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-237) and index.

1. Euboulia in the Iliad -- 2. The disappearing philosopher-king -- 3. Zeno of Citium's anti-utopianism -- 4. Plato on the economy -- 5. Political friendship and the ideology of reciprocity -- 6. Equality and hierarchy in Aristotle's political thought -- 7. Ideology and philosophy in Aristotle's theory of slavery -- 8. Sharing in the constitution -- 9. Morality and the law: the case of Diogenes of Babylon -- 10. Cicero's definition of res publica.

How are political communities cemented together? Are rights inherent in the idea of citizenship? Saving the City examines ancient political thought from Homer to Cicero. It explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it, discussing how far we can use categories such as the heroic code, utopianism, ideology, the economy or political rights to examine the evidence. This erudite and stimulating book offers fresh resolutions of disputed issues in well known texts such as Homer's Iliad and the Politics of Aristotle, and new explorations of some less familiar material, notably Plato's Laws, Aristotle's Eudemiau Ethics, Stoic political theory and Cicero's Republic.