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For all classical texts, unless stated otherwise or below, the translations used are invariably from their corresponding editions in the online Loeb Classical Library.

Thucydides

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Plato

Plato. Plato: Complete Works. Edited by John M. Cooper and D.S. Hutchinson. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1997.

Aristotle

Politics: Aristotle. Politics. Translated by Ernest Barker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Other Works: The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon. Toronto: Modern Library, 2001.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. On the Commonwealth and On the Laws. Translated by James E. G. Zetzel. 2nd ed. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

———. Selected Letters. Edited and translated by P.G. Walsh. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas, Aquinas. St Thomas Aquinas: Political Writings. Edited and translated by R.W. Dyson. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by J.C.A. Gaskin. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Adam Smith

Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edited by R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner. 2 vols. The Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1982.

———. Lectures on Jurisprudence. Edited by D.D. Raphael, P.G. Stein, and R.L. Meek. The Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1982.

———. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie. The Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1982.

Edmund Burke

Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful: And Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings. Edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1998.

———. On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters. Edited by David Bromwich. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

———. ‘Reflections On The Revolution In France, And On The Proceedings In Certain Societies In London Relative To That Event: In A Letter Intended To Have Been Sent To A Gentleman In Paris.’ In Reflections on the Revolution in France, edited by Frank M. Turner, 3–210. Yale University Press, 2003.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America and Two Essays on America. Translated by Gerald E. Bevan. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2003.

———. The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution. Translated by Gerald E. Bevan. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2008.