DEAN HAMMER is John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. He has written extensively on the ancient and modern ancient world. His books include Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (Cambridge, 2014), Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins (1998), and, as editor, A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (2015).

• Introduction; 1. Memory, identity, and violence: founding in the Aeneid and The Outlaw Josey Wales; 2. Imagining purity: the corrosive Stranger and the construction of a genealogy; 3. The wild Stranger and the conquest of space; 4. Playing culture: combat spectacles and the acting body; 5. The experience of politics and the crises of two republics.

'Recommended.' M. A. Byron, Choice

DEAN HAMMER is John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. He has written extensively on the ancient and modern ancient world. His books include Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (Cambridge, 2014), Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins (1998), and, as editor, A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (2015).

• Introduction; 1. Memory, identity, and violence: founding in the Aeneid and The Outlaw Josey Wales; 2. Imagining purity: the corrosive Stranger and the construction of a genealogy; 3. The wild Stranger and the conquest of space; 4. Playing culture: combat spectacles and the acting body; 5. The experience of politics and the crises of two republics.

'Recommended.' M. A. Byron, Choice

DEAN HAMMER is John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. He has written extensively on the ancient and modern ancient world. His books include Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (Cambridge, 2014), Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins (1998), and, as editor, A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (2015).

• Introduction; 1. Memory, identity, and violence: founding in the Aeneid and The Outlaw Josey Wales; 2. Imagining purity: the corrosive Stranger and the construction of a genealogy; 3. The wild Stranger and the conquest of space; 4. Playing culture: combat spectacles and the acting body; 5. The experience of politics and the crises of two republics.

'Recommended.' M. A. Byron, Choice