On the Nature of the Gods. Academics

by Cicero, H. Rackham

Overview

The philosopher-statesman on theology and epistemology.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674992962
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1933
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #268
Edition description:	8th printing/1st pub.1933/index
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.40(d)
Language:	Latin

About the Author

Harris Rackham (1868–1944) was a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

De Natura Deorum

Introduction

Book I

Book II

Book III

Fragments

Index

Academica

Introduction

Dedicatory Letter

Book I

Book II

Index