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Cicero: On Stoic Good and Evil
M. R. Wright
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Hardcover. Text with translation and commentary. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
Cicero’s De Finibus 3 gives, through the persona of Cato, an outline of Stoic ethical theory, and is the main continuous text on this subject extant from the ancient world. This edition with text and subtitles, facing translation and commentary, aims to present to the modern reader the arguments in a clear and accessible form against the background of the turmoil of political events surrounding the death of Caesar, and in a presentation that will allow those with only a little Latin to follow the original text. The Paradoxes give in a more popular form, and with many examples from ... Read more
Cicero’s De Finibus 3 gives, through the persona of Cato, an outline of Stoic ethical theory, and is the main continuous text on this subject extant from the ancient world. This edition with text and subtitles, facing translation and commentary, aims to present to the modern reader the arguments in a clear and accessible form against the background of the turmoil of political events surrounding the death of Caesar, and in a presentation that will allow those with only a little Latin to follow the original text. The Paradoxes give in a more popular form, and with many examples from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Language
Latin
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856684678
SKU
V9780856684678
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About M. R. Wright
Rosemary Wright is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Wales Lampeter. Her publications include Cosmology in Antiquity (Routledge, 1995), The Presocratics: The Main Fragments in Greek with Introduction, Commentary and Appendix (Bristol Classical Press, 1985), and Empedocles of Acragas (Yale University Press, 1981).
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