Eric Nelson

Associate professor, government, Harvard University

Eric Nelson is chiefly interested in the history of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Nelson is the author of *The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought*, and editor of Hobbes's translations of the *Iliad* and *Odyssey* for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. His work may also be found in *Renaissance Quarterly*, *The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory*, and *The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy*, among other publications.