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  1. On the liberties of the ancients: licentiousness, equal rights, and the rule of law.Dan Edelstein & Benjamin Straumann - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (6):1037-1060.
    In this article, we discuss Greek and Roman conceptions of liberty. The supposedly ‘neo-Roman’ view of liberty as non-domination is really derived from negative Greek models, we argue, while Roman authors devised an alternative understanding of liberty that rested on the equality of legal rights. In this ‘paleo-Roman’ model, as long as the law was the same for all, you were free; whether or not you participated in making the law was not a constitutive feature of liberty. In essence, this (...)
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