Cicero the Philosopher
Twelve Papers. Edited and introduced by ---
Contents: Introduction: Cicero's Philosophical works and their Background; Cicero's Plato and Aristotle; Cicero's Definition of res publica; Silencing the Troublemaker: De Legibus 1.39 and the continuity of Cicero's Scepticism; Probabile, veri simile, and related Terms; Cicero on Epicurean Pleasures...
Editor: | Jonathan Powell |
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Published: |
Clarendon Press,
Oxford,
1999
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Total Pages: | 384 |
Format: | Book |
Topic: | -
Biography
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Relations and Sources
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Platonism - Neo-platonism
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Platonism of Varro, Cicero and Virgil
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Cicero
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Status: | Needs Review |
Summary: | Contents: Introduction: Cicero's Philosophical works and their Background; Cicero's Plato and Aristotle; Cicero's Definition of res publica; Silencing the Troublemaker: De Legibus 1.39 and the continuity of Cicero's Scepticism; Probabile, veri simile, and related Terms; Cicero on Epicurean Pleasures; Cicero on self-love and love of humanity in De finibus 3; Form and Content in the Tusculan Disputations; Cicero and the Therapists; Causes and Necessary Conditions in the Topica and De fato; Cicero's translations from Greek; '...a self-indulgent misuse of leisure and writing?' How not to write philosophy: did Cicero get it right?; Philosophical badinage in Cicero's letters to his friends. |
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