Cicero the Philosopher Twelve Papers [Paperback]

Cicero may be best known as a politician, but he was also one of the few significant Roman writers of philosophy. Powell presents a new and exciting selection of current scholarly work on this neglected side of him, establishing Cicero firmly as a serious philosophical writer of continuing importance and relevance.

Introduction: Cicero's Philosophical works and their Background
1. Cicero's Plato and Aristotle
2. Cicero's Definition ofres publica
3. Silencing the Troublemaker:De Legibus1.39 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 inDe Finibus3
7. Form and Content in theTusculan Disputations
8. Cicero and the Therapists
9. Causes and Necessary Conditions in theTopicaandDe 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 friends

A welcome collection of essays by prominent scholars... --Religious Studies Review