Ruled by Wolves

Su Fang Ng makes (I think) a pretty compelling case that that Hobbes rejects the story of Lucretia s rape as the foundational myth of Rome in favour of the wolf suckling Remus and Romulus, which represents a more monarchical aetiological myth of state formation. According to the story, Lucretia, a Roman noblewoman, is raped by Continue reading Ruled by Wolves