Department of Politics at Princeton University

Princeton University Press has published Melissa Lane's new book, "Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living (2011; also published in the UK by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, as Eco-Republic: Ancient Thinking for a Green Age). The book describes key messages - on the role of the individual, the household, the nature of citizenship, and the significance of the imagination - which bring the wisdom of the past to bear on the ch