CONTRIBUTOR:
Malcolm Schofield
AFFILIATION:
TITLE:
Emeritus Professor
DEPARTMENT:
Ancient Philosophy
INSTITUTION:
University of Cambridge
BIOGRAPHY:
Malcolm Schofield is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St John’s College. His first book was An Essay on Anaxagoras (Cambridge 1980), he co-authored with G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge 1983), and has co-edited numerous other collaborative volumes, including in 2015 with Catherine Rowett a special Heraclitus issue of the journal Rhizomata. He now works mostly on Greek and Roman political philosophy. He was co-editor with Christopher Rowe of The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge 2000). The Stoic Idea of the City (Cambridge 1991; expanded reprint Chicago 1999), Saving the City (London 1999), and Plato: Political Philosophy (Oxford 2006) are among his major solo publications. Current projects include a book on Cicero’s political thought and a new translation (with Tom Griffith) of Plato’s Laws.