<div><i>The Stoic Idea of the City</i> offers the first systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrating on Zeno's <i>Republic</i>. Renowned classical scholar Malcolm Schofield brings together scattered and underused textual evidence, examining the Stoic ideals that initiated the natural law tradition of Western political thought. A new foreword by Martha Nussbaum and a new epilogue written by the author further secure this text as the standard work on Presocratic Stoics.<br><br>"The account emerges from a jigsaw-puzzle of items from a wide range of authorities, painstakingly pieced together and then annotated in a series of appendixes, the whole executed with fine scholarship, clarity, and good humor."--<i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br><br><br></div>