Cicero's Academici libri and Lucullus: A Commentary with Introduction and Translations

by Tobias Reinhardt

Overview

Cicero's so-called Academica is a significant text for European cultural and intellectual history: as a substantial and self-contained body of evidence for one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity, as evidence for Stoic thought presented on its own terms and in interaction with objections, as a key text in a broader tradition which is devoted to the possibility of knowledge arising from perceptual experience, and as evidence for the fate of Plato's Academy in its final phase as a functioning school. This volume is the first detailed commentary on this set of texts since Reid's, published in 1885. It takes full account of the scholarly debate to date and seeks to elucidate the dialogues and fragmentary remains from a philosophical, historical, literary, and linguistic point of view.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199277148
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2023
Pages:	1120
Product dimensions:	9.48(w) x 6.41(h) x 2.62(d)

About the Author

Tobias Reinhardt, University of Oxford

Tobias Reinhardt is Corpus Christi Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Latin and Greek at Somerville College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

IntroductionTranslationsLettersAc. 1FragmentsLuc.CommentaryAc. 1FragmentsLuc.AppendicesAppendix 1: Non-Ciceronian Texts on the Sceptical AcademyAppendix 2: Numenius on the Academy

Editorial Reviews

"While there is no direct course through the Academica, no Cynosura to guide readers out at sea, Reinhardt is the expert and charitable guide we have long needed for the winding path by the Septemtriones." — Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Research on Cicero,... is absolutely thriving — with Tobias Reinhardt's magisterial edition of and commentary on the Academici libri and Lucullus." — Anke Walter, Greece & Rome

"Tobias Reinhardt's guide through the thicket is clear, convincing, and useful." — Scott F. Aikin, Ancient Philosophy

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