Author: Powell, J. G. F. [Ed.]
Title: *Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Cicero the philosopher : twelve papers
Place edition: Oxford & New York
Editor: Oxford University Pr.
Year edition: 1995
Pages: XVII, 360
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Review:
Works:
Author initials: Powell 1995
Title: *Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Cicero the philosopher : twelve papers
Place edition: Oxford & New York
Editor: Oxford University Pr.
Year edition: 1995
Pages: XVII, 360
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Review:
Dyck, “Bryn Mawr Classical Review”, 1996, 7, (4), 333-342 – Zetze, “Classical Review”, 1997, NS, 47, (1), 81-82 – Druet, “Les Études Classiques”, 1996, 64, (4), 394-395 – Sharples, “Phronesis”, 1996, 41, (1), 116 – Lössl, “Theologie und Philosophie”, 1998, 73, (1), 96-98
Description: Contents :1 - Cicero's Plato and Aristotle 2 - Cicero's Definition of res publica 3 - Silencing the Troublemaker: De Legibus 1.39 and the continuity of Cicero's scepticism 4 - Probabile, veri simile, and related Terms 5 - Cicero on Epicurean Pleasures 6 - Cicero on self-love and love of humanity in De Finibus 3 7 - Form and Content in the Tusculan Disputations 8 - Cicero and the Therapists 9 - Causes and Necessary Conditions in the Topica and De fato 10 - Cicero's translations from Greek 11 - `...a self-indulgent misuse of leisure and writing?' How not to write philosophy: did Cicero get it right? 12 - Philosophical Badinage in Cicero's letters to his friendsWorks:
Author initials: Powell 1995
