Modern political science pays no attention to the Romans, Hammer (classics and government, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania), and so marginal have they become that no one even notices that they are absent. He asks whether there is anything worth retrieving from Roman political thought by looking at how it has been portrayed by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Arendt, and Foucault. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)