The Just City
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An international research project on the historical foundations of Western ideas about justice, funded by @ERC_Research, hosted @UZH_ch | PI: Benjamin Straumann
Zürich
Joined September 2020
B. Straumann, “The Just State” is out with Wiley-Blackwell, a survey of Greek & Roman theories of justice and their legacy in Western political thought.
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New OA publication in the JRS! B. Straumann, “From Individual Virtue to the Just State: Cicero and the Legal Nature of Roman Political Thought”:
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From Individual Virtue to the Just State: Cicero and the Legal Nature of Roman Political Thought
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Yes, wasn’t “burn classics down” the thing?.
@GMcCor I don't think in this particular case any of it has been done by activists on any definition of the word. But my exam question would anyhow rather be 'Activism is a convenient cover for bureaucracy. Discuss.'.
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Insanely moronic:.
More on the pause in doctoral admissions at the University (Polytechnic?) of Chicago:
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ZRG review by B. Straumann of Jean-Louis Ferrary, La pensée politique de la Rome républicaine et les traités de philosophie politique de Cicéron.
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Article Jean-Louis Ferrary, La pensée politique de la Rome républicaine et les traités de philosophie politique de Cicéron. A cura di Maria Stefania Montecalvo was published on June 1, 2025 in the...
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BMCR review by A. Kotarcic of Manuwald, Cicero: De Re Publica – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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JRS review by N. Hächler of Ferris, A Map of the Body, A Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World. Oxford, 2024. isbn 9781803277813. £45.00/US$65.00. |
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IAIN M. FERRIS, A Map of the Body, A Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 115). Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2024. Pp. xxix +...
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Conversation on the constitution of the Roman republic:.
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Podcast-Folge · The Classical Antiquity Sidequest · 11.06.2025 · 55 Min.
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RT @msomos: Grateful for a truly world-class conference and the opportunity to present our Grotius Census at NYU Law on 29-31 May. Congratu….
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RT @AlteGJMU: Besuch aus Zürich: Am Donnerstag kommt Benjamin Straumann @IurisConsensus zu uns und spricht über Cicero und die Menschenrech….
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V interesting new volume (OA):.Vervaet, Frederik Juliaan, Rafferty, David and Dart, Christopher J. How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025.
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Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from...
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Our Just City ERC project is nearing its conclusion after intense years of research and publishing. We’ll say goodbye with a final conference on May 29-31 at NYU Law School, with keynotes by Carlos Lévy (Paris) and Lauren Benton (Yale)
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Forthcoming in October, The Ancient World, vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of Rights, ed. by C. Ando, M. Canevaro and B. Straumann -
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RT @HorcherF: On Wednesday, 9th April, Benjamin Straumann will join the research seminar of @UpsPolitics at @uni_nke. He will introduce his….
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Important new article by @jeffdymond on Machiavelli's conception of the state and its legacy (OA):.
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Jus Cogens - The aim of this article is, first, to reconstruct Machiavelli’s understanding of the nature and aims of the political community (in his language, “state”), and,...
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RT @WalterScheidel: A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires | Nature Communications
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Nature Communications - The authors estimate income inequality in the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Empire. They find that the Han Empire was, overall, more unequal and extractive than the Roman...
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RT @esclh: BOOK: Benjamin STRAUMANN, The Just State: Greek and Roman Theories of Justice and Their Legacy in Western Thought (Chichester: W….
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