Download or read book Cicero Greek Learning and the Making of a Roman Classic written by Caroline Bishop and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas about the value of humanistic pursuits is both deep and profound. However, despite the significance of subsequent reception in ensuring his canonical status, Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic demonstrates that no one is more responsible for Cicero's transformation into a classic than Cicero himself, and that in his literary works he laid the groundwork for the ways in which he is still remembered today. The volume presents a new way of understanding Cicero's career as an author by situating his textual production within the context of the growth of Greek classicism: the movement had begun to flourish shortly before his lifetime and he clearly grasped its benefits both for himself and for Roman literature more broadly. By strategically adapting classic texts from the Greek world, and incorporating into his adaptations the interpretations of the Hellenistic philosophers, poets, rhetoricians, and scientists who had helped enshrine those works as classics, he could envision and create texts with classical authority for a parallel Roman canon. Ranging across a variety of genres - including philosophy, rhetoric, oratory, poetry, and letters - this close study of Cicero's literary works moves from his early translation of Aratus' poetry (and its later reappearance through self-quotation) to Platonizing philosophy, Aristotelian rhetoric, Demosthenic oratory, and even a planned Greek-style letter collection. Juxtaposing incisive analysis of how Cicero consciously adopted classical Greek writers as models and predecessors with detailed accounts of the reception of those figures by Greek scholars of the Hellenistic period, the volume not only offers ground-breaking new insights into Cicero's ascension to canonical status, but also a salutary new account of Greek intellectual life and its effect on Roman literature.
Download or read book Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion written by J. P. F. Wynne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.
Download or read book Cicero On the Commonwealth and On the Laws written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Zetzel presents a masterly translation of two central works of ancient philosophy.
Download or read book Catilinarians written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commentary for students on the four speeches delivered by Cicero during the crisis of 63 BC, when, as consul, he faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. They show him at the height of his oratorical powers and political influence.
Download or read book Cicero in Greece Greece in Cicero written by Ioannis Deligiannis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Academic Questions written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Republic of Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1829, the present book 'The republic of Cicero' by celebrated ancient Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator and political theorist Marcus Tullius Cicero is a dialogue on Roman politics, written in six books in Socratic style.
Download or read book Cicero s Tusculan Disputations written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The republic of Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The republic of Cicero' is a Roman political dialogue written by Cicero, and only partially survives today. In the form of a Socratic dialogue, Scipio Aemilianus plays the wise old man and explores Roman constitutional theory, different types of constitutions, and the roles of citizens in government. Cicero also examines the type of government established in Rome since the kings, which was challenged by Julius Caesar. The work is famous for the Dream of Scipio, a fictional dream vision from the sixth book. A must-read for those interested in ancient Roman politics and constitutional theory.
Download or read book The Greek in Cicero s Epistles written by Robert Benson Steele and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero on the Emotions written by Marcus Tullius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position, which he himself favors for its close reasoning and moral earnestness. Both the specialist and the general reader will be fascinated by the Stoics' analysis of the causes of grief, their classification of emotions by genus and species, their lists of oddly named character flaws, and by the philosophical debate that develops over the utility of anger in politics and war. Margaret Graver's elegant and idiomatic translation makes Cicero's work accessible not just to classicists but to anyone interested in ancient philosophy and psychotherapy or in the philosophy of emotion. The accompanying commentary explains the philosophical concepts discussed in the text and supplies many helpful parallels from Greek sources.
Download or read book On the Commonwealth written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Commonwealth represents Cicero's first serious attempt to bring Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. While some passages have been lost or reduced to fragments, it remains an important work of political philosophy and essential reading for political science students.
Download or read book On Living and Dying Well written by Cicero and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties, the questions of free will, and the justification of any creative endeavour. This lively, lucid new translation from Thomas Habinek, editor of Classical Antiquity and the Classics and Contemporary Thought book series, makes Cicero's influential ideas accessible to every reader.
Download or read book Cicero De Re Publica written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Cicero On Duties written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Republican order would survive, Cicero here handed on the insights of an elder statesman, adept at political theory and practice, to his son, and through him, to the younger generation in general. De Officiis has often been treated merely as a key to the lost Greek works that Cicero used. This volume aims to render De Officiis, which was such an important influence on later masterpieces of Western political thought, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. A wholly new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and all the standard features of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, including a chronology, select bibliography, and notes on the vocabulary and significant individuals mentioned in the text.
Download or read book Cicero select letters written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero and the Roman Republic written by Manfred Fuhrmann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
