Cicero: On Duties / Edition 1

by Marcus Tullius Cicero, E. M. Atkins

Overview

De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but this volume aims to render De Officiis, which had a profound impact upon subsequent political thinkers, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. All the standard series features are present, including a wholly new translation, a concise introduction by a leading scholar, select bibliography, chronology, notes on vocabulary and brief biographies of the most prominent individuals mentioned in the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521348355
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/21/1991
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	243
Sales rank:	646,636
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Editors' note; Introduction; Principal dates; Plan of the Hellenistic schools; Summary of the Doctrines of the Hellenistic schools; Bibliography; Notes on translation; Synopsis; On Duties; Biographical notes; Index of persons and places; Index of subjects.