The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics Josh Birnbaum Kate O'Rourke

Kate O'Rourke

and the ways Black girls have imagined themselves as part of a global African diaspora

The opening chapter focuses on the life and teachings of Socrates with emphasis on his claim that "the unexamined life is not worth living

In clear and compelling prose Zitarelli spins a tale accessible to experts

it now being challenged by a variety of ideas and concepts

The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics Josh Birnbaum Kate O'RourkeThe bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this book, Melissa Matthes takes advantage of the way in which republican theorists in different erasLivy, Machiavelli, and Rousseauretell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their own conceptions of republicanism. The recurring presentation of this story as theater by these different theorists reveals