Ancient World 2013 press.princeton.edu Forthcoming New How to Run a Country A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders How to Win an Election Marcus Tullius Cicero An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians Selected, translated, and with an Quintus Tullius Cicero introduction by Philip Freeman Translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman “Cicero’s acute observations about how to gov- ern will resonate with everyone who recognizes “I just hope my opponent in the next campaign that the tribalism, ideological extremism, and doesn’t get a copy.” coarsened culture of politics today urgently need —James Carville, Foreign Affairs to change.” How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman —Norman J. Ornstein, coauthor of It’s Even Worse guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as Than It Looks tomorrow’s headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome’s greatest statesman and Marcus Cicero, Rome’s greatest orator, ran for orator, was elected to the Roman Republic’s consul (the highest office in the Republic), his highest office at a time when the very existence practical brother Quintus decided he needed of his beloved country was threatened by some no-nonsense advice on running a success- power-hungry politicians, dire economic ful campaign. What follows in his short letter are troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties timeless bits of political wisdom, from the impor- that refused to work together. Sound familiar? tance of promising everything to everybody and Cicero’s letters, speeches, and other writings are reminding voters about the sexual scandals of filled with timeless wisdom and practical insight your opponents to being a chameleon, putting about how to solve these and other problems on a good show for the masses, and constantly of leadership and politics. How to Run a Country surrounding yourself with rabid supporters. collects the best of these writings to provide an Presented here in a lively and colorful new entertaining, common sense guide for modern translation, with the Latin text on facing pages, leaders and citizens. This brief book, a sequel this unashamedly pragmatic primer on the to How to Win an Election, gathers Cicero’s most humble art of personal politicking is dead-on perceptive thoughts on topics such as leader- (Cicero won)—and as relevant today as when it ship, corruption, the balance of power, taxes, war, was written. immigration, and the importance of compromise. Philip Freeman holds the Qualley Chair of Classical These writings have influenced great leaders— Languages at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. including America’s Founding Fathers—for two 2012. 128 pages. thousand years, and they are just as instructive Cl: 978-0-691-15408-4 $9.95 | £6.95 today as when they were first written. February 2013. 152 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-15657-6 $12.95 | £8.95 Cover image: Aesop and the fox. Attic red-figure cup, attributed to the Painter of Bolognia, c. 450 BCE. Museo Gregoriano, Vatican. Moscioni Collection n.8601. Courtesy of the American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. New Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD Peter Brown Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becom- ing rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world’s foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity’s growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspec- tive on the social history of the church in late antiquity. Peter Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. 2012. 816 pages. 12 color illus. 8 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps. 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Mr. Cooper’s book proves to be “In this original and arresting study, Sara an antidote to the rosy nostalgia that poisons Forsdyke explores Greek literature’s complex stories about what philosophy was and what it hybrid of elite literary culture and the non-elite, has become.” largely oral culture that lies below its surface. —Brendan Boyle, Wall Street Journal She ambitiously examines themes, imagery, and symbolism with a view to detecting subtle traces Pursuits of Wisdom is essential reading for anyone of sub-elite popular culture as it existed in both interested in understanding what the great free and unfree social contexts.” philosophers of antiquity thought was the true —Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge purpose of philosophy—and of life.