Powell, J. (1990), Cicero: On Friendship & The Dream of Scipio, Warminster. This is the assigned text, and should be available in the campus bookshop.
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Asmis, E. (2004), “The state as a partnership: Cicero's definition of res publica in his work On the state,” History of Political Thought 25: 569–599.
Atkins, J. W. (2013), Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason: The Republic and Laws, Cambridge (esp. the chapter “The Dream of Scipio and the science of politics”, pp. 47–79).
Coleman-Norton, P. R. (1950), “Cicero and the Music of the Spheres”, The Classical Journal 45: 237–241.
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McConnell, S. (2017). “Magnitudo Animi and Cosmic Politics in Cicero’s De Re Publica”, The Classical Journal 113: 45–70.
Nicgorski, W. (2022), “Cicero’s republicanism”, in Atkins, J. W. & Bénatouïl, T. (Eds), The Cambridge companion to Cicero’s philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Pr., 215–230.
Schofield, M. (1995), “Cicero's definition of res publica”, in Powell, G. F. (Ed.), Cicero the philosopher: twelve papers. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Pr., 63–83.
Stahl, W. H. (Ed.). (1952), Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. New York: Columbia Univ. Pr..
Stevens, J. (2006), “The Imagery of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis”, in Deroux, C. (ed.), Collection Latomus 301. Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIII, 155–65.
Stevenson, T. (2005), “Readings of Scipio’s Dictatorship in Cicero’s De Re Publica (6.12)”, The Classical Quarterly 55: 140–152.
Woolf, R. (2015), Cicero: the philosophy of a Roman sceptic. London; New York: Routledge (esp. the chapter “The best form of government”, pp. 93–124).
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