The Just City: The Ciceronian Conception of Justice and Its Reception in the Western Tradition

Project Information

JustCity

Grant agreement ID: 864309

DOI

10.3030/864309

Project closed

EC signature date 18 December 2019

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 775 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 775 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
Switzerland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Friedens- und Kriegsreden der Herrscher Constantius II. (354) und Julian (360) bei Kaiseraugst

Author(s): Nikolas Hächler
Published in: conexus, 2024, Page(s) 69-94, ISSN 2673-1851
Publisher: conexus
DOI: 10.24445/conexus.2024.07.006

The<b><i>XXviri ex senatus consulto rei publicae curandae</i></b>of 238. A Note on Senatorial Resistance against a Tyrannical<b><i>hostis publicus</i></b>that Recalls Rome’s Republican Constitution

Author(s): Nikolas Hächler
Published in: Klio, Issue 105, 2024, Page(s) 646-666, ISSN 0075-6334
Publisher: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
DOI: 10.1515/klio-2022-0041

Ciceronian Jurisprudence and the Law of Nations

Author(s): Jeffrey Dymond
Published in: The Historical Journal, Issue 67, 2024, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0018-246X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0018246x23000523

CICERO'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN ITS REPUBLICAN CONTEXT - (M.) Schofield Cicero. Political Philosophy. Pp. xiv + 285. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Paper, £19.99, US$25 (Cased, £65, US$85). ISBN: 978-0-19-968492-2 (978-0-19-968491-5 hbk).

Author(s): René de Nicolay
Published in: The Classical Review, 2021, ISSN 0009-840x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x21002183

Human Character and the Formation of the State: Reconsidering Machiavelli and Polybius 6

Author(s): Jeffrey Dymond
Published in: Journal of the History of Ideas, 2021, ISSN 0022-5037
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2021.0001

Is the Law the Soul of the State?

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann
Published in: European Journal of International Law, 2021, ISSN 0938-5428
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ejil/chab078

The Birth of Unlawful Freedom in Plato’s Laws 3

Author(s): René de Nicolay
Published in: Polis, 2021, ISSN 0142-257X
Publisher: Imprint Academic
DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340347

Philosopher-King on a Leash: Combining Plato’s Republic, Statesman and Laws in the Justinianic Dialogue On Political Science

Author(s): René de Nicolay
Published in: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Issue Published online on 20 October 2022, 2022, ISSN 0003-9101
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
DOI: 10.1515/agph-2021-0168

Cicero Carneadeus

Author(s): Ana Kotarcic
Published in: Ciceroniana On Line, Issue Vol. 8 No. 1 (2024), 2024, ISSN 2532-5353
Publisher: SIAC (Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron (www.tulliana.eu) and CSC (Centro di Studi Ciceroniani in Rome)
DOI: 10.13135/2532-5353/10907

Carneades' Role in Cicero's Conceptualisation of Justice

Author(s): Ana Kotarcic
Published in: Florentia Iliberritana, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 139-167, ISSN 1131-8848
Publisher: Editorial de la Universidad de Granada
DOI: 10.30827/floril.v35.28912

Machiavelli’s State and its Later Reception

Author(s): Jeffrey Dymond
Published in: Jus Cogens, Issue 7, 2025, Page(s) 113-130, ISSN 2524-3977
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s42439-025-00105-x

Licentia: Cicero on the Suicide of Political Communities

Author(s): René de Nicolay
Published in: Classical Philology, 2021, ISSN 0009-837X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/716083

Théorie et pratique de la πίστις chez Polybe : Rome, l’Achaïe et le monde méditerranéen

Author(s): René de Nicolay
Published in: HISTORIA, Issue 72.4, 2023, Page(s) 386-443, ISSN 2365-3108
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
DOI: 10.25162/historia-2023-0016

On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann and Dan Edelstein
Published in: History of European Ideas, 2023, ISSN 0191-6599
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-233594

Formen und Auswirkungen römisch-germanischer Grenzpolitik am spätrömischen Hochrheinlimes

Author(s): Nikolas Hächler
Published in: Geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 45-60, ISSN 0378-8652
Publisher: Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Verlag
DOI: 10.1553/anzeiger159-1s45

Roman Rights Talk: Subjective Rights in Cicero and Livy

Author(s): Dan Edelstein, Benjamin Straumann
Published in: History of Political Thought, Issue Volume 43, Number 4, November 2022, 2022, Page(s) 637-659(23), ISSN 0143-781X
Publisher: Imprint Academic
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-223840

Review: Stefano Maso, Cicero’s Philosophy

Author(s): Piergiacomi, Enrico
Published in: Ciceroniana on Line, Issue Vol. 6, No. 2, 2022, Page(s) 303-311, ISSN 2532-5353
Publisher: Università degli Studi di Torino
DOI: 10.13135/2532-5353/7272

Rezension Malcolm Schofield, Cicero: Political Philosophy

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann
Published in: GNOMON, Issue 95.5, 2023, Page(s) 423-428, ISSN 0017-1417
Publisher: Beck
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-234880

Book chapters (9)

Thomas Hobbes

Author(s): Signy Gutnick Allen
Published in: Rethinking Political Thinkers, 2023, Page(s) 79-95, ISBN 9780198847397
Publisher: Oxford University Press

“‘A Title to Another’s Plenty,’ Rights of Charity in Locke’s Political Thought,” in Wouter Druwé and Randall Lesaffer (eds.), (Brill, forthcoming 2025)

Author(s): Signy Gutnick Allen
Published in: Natural Law and Domestic Government, 2025
Publisher: Brill

Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Melian Dialogue

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann
Published in: The State of Nature : Histories of an Idea. Leiden: Brill, 6-27., 2021
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004499621_003

“The Right to Punish”

Author(s): Signy Gutnick Allen
Published in: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,, Issue Vol. 3 of The Cambridge History of Rights, 2025, ISBN 9781108837323
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Justice and Republicanism

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism, 2024, ISBN 9780197754115
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197754115.013.11

Ein Naturrecht für Skeptiker: Cicero und die Aufklärung in Basel

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann
Published in: Cicero in Basel, 2024, Page(s) 257-284, ISBN 9783111447827
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111454641-014

Sociability in Grotius

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann
Published in: The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius, 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108182751.012

The 'Hammer of the Aristocracy'? Diocletian's Reign and its Consequences for the Amplissimus Ordo

Author(s): Nikolas Hächler
Published in: Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, Issue Band 64, 2023, Page(s) 179-220, ISBN 978-3-515-13400-2
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
DOI: 10.25162/9783515134033

Lactantius on justice, charity and the use of human emotion after the persecution of Christians under the tetrarchs

Author(s): Nikolas Hächler
Published in: Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, Issue Jahrgangsband 2025, 2025
Publisher: Aschendorff Verlag

Other (1)

Review of Christoph Begass (Hrsg.),Johannes Lydos’ Demagistratibus. Autor–Werk – Kontext. Akten der Internationalen Tagung in Mannheim, 17.–18.Januar 2020 (Roma Aeterna 17). Stuttgart: Steiner 2024. 240 S. – ISBN978-3-515-13775-1 (€ 54,00)

Author(s): Nikolas Hächler
Published in: The Byzantine Review, Issue The Byzantine Review, 7, 2024, Page(s) 193–201
Publisher: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies / University of Münster
DOI: 10.17879/byzrev-2025-6751

Monographic books (1)

The Just State: Greek and Roman Theories of Justice and Their Legacy in Western Thought

Author(s): Benjamin Straumann
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-1-118-63468-4
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell