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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy > Hellenistic and Later Ancient Philosophy > Academic Skeptics > Cicero
Cicero
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| Summary | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher. As well as speeches, letters, and rhetorical treatises, Cicero wrote numerous philosophical works. There are two schools of thought on the novelty and value of Cicero’s philosophical works: (1) he is essentially just repackaging Greek material in Latin, offering renditions of existing ideas that are invaluable for saving much of the lost tradition of Hellenistic philosophy; (2) he is doing something more than that, developing distinctive philosophical contributions of his own. Most recent studies stress the innovative elements of Cicero’s philosophical thinking. Cicero's philosophical writings have been very influential in the history and development of European intellectual traditions. |
| Introductions | Woolf 2014 and Woolf 2022 are excellent and accessible introductions to Cicero’s philosophical thought for the general reader. MacKendrick 1989 offers useful plot summaries of each work. Atkins & Bénatouïl 2021 provides a comprehensive survey of all major areas of Cicero's philosophical thought and practice. Schofield 2021 offers a detailed account of Cicero's political philosophy in particular. |
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- (1 other version)The Partial Coherence of Cicero’s De officiis.Thornton Lockwood - manuscriptMartha Nussbaum has provided a sustained critique of Cicero’s De officiis (or On Duties), concerning what she claims is Cicero’s incoherent distinction between duties of justice, which are strict, cosmopolitan, and impartial, and duties of material aid, which are elastic, weighted towards those who are near and dear, and partial. No doubt, from Nussbaum’s cosmopolitan perspective, Cicero’s distinction between justice and beneficence seems problematic and lies at the root of modern moral failures to conceptualize adequately our obligations in situations of (...)
- (1 other version)Cicero's Philosophy of Just War.Thornton Lockwood - manuscriptCicero’s ethical and political writings present a detailed and sophisticated philosophy of just war, namely an account of when armed conflict is morally right or wrong. Several of the philosophical moves or arguments that he makes, such as a critique of “Roman realism” or his incorporation of the ius fetiale—a form of archaic international law—are remarkable similar to those of the contemporary just war philosopher Michael Walzer, even if Walzer is describing inter-state war and Cicero is describing imperial war. But (...)
- Cicero's demarcation of science: A report of shared criteria.Damian Fernandez Beanato - forthcoming - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A.
- Notes on the Text and Interpretation of Cicero, De Harvspicvm Responsis.Andrew R. Dyck - forthcoming - Classical Quarterly:1-3.This note examines five passages of Cicero, De haruspicum responsis in light of the commented edition of A. Corbeill. New conjectures are offered on §§29 and 50; the transmitted text of §46 is defended; and a different interpretation of the text is offered at §§37 and 61.
- CICERO's USE OF GREEK IN THE LETTERS - (S.) Aubert-Baillot Le grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cicéron. (Philosophie hellénistique et romaine 12.) Pp. 696. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Paper, €120. ISBN: 978-2-503-59155-1. [REVIEW]Peter Osorio - forthcoming - The Classical Review:1-2.
- Commitment without Conviction: Cicero’s Skeptical Eudaimonism.Michael Vazquez - forthcoming - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy.In this paper I offer an account of how Cicero governed his practical life as an Academic skeptic, which I call “commitment without conviction.” While Cicero was committed to the universal suspension of assent, he was nonetheless entitled to form rationally warranted, diachronically stable beliefs. At the same time, I argue, Cicero lacked conviction in two senses. First, he did not believe with conviction, or with a level of confidence exceeding the bounds set by Academic arguments for akatalēpsia. Second, he (...)Remove from this listExport citationBookmark
- CICÉRON, Les Académiques – Tome I. Academicus Primus, Introduction générale, établissement du texte, traduction, commentaire par C. LÉVY, T. HUNT et E. MALASPINA, avec le concours de V. REVELLO, Collection des Universités de France, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2025.Lévy Carlos, Hunt Terence & Ermanno Malaspina - 2025 - Paris: Les Belles Lettres.L’édition a été conçue et réalisée grâce à la collaboration des trois éditeurs, qui ont défini ensemble la structure générale et qui ont approuvé chaque page après une riche discussion commune depuis 2009, à la fois en présence à Paris ou en visioconférence. Depuis 2023, la discussion commune s’est élargie à Veronica Revello. Plus précisément, pour ce qui concerne l’introduction générale, toute la première partie (« Les idées et les mots des Académiques ») est de Carlos Lévy, alors que la (...)
- Grotius Contra Carneades: Natural Law and the Problem of Self-Interest.Scott Casleton - 2025 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 63 (1):49-74.In the Prolegomena to De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Hugo Grotius expounds his theory of natural law by way of reply to a skeptical challenge from the Greek Academic Carneades. Though this dialectical context is undeniably important for understanding Grotian natural law, commentators disagree about the substance of Carneades’s challenge. This paper aims to give a definitive reading of Carneades’s skeptical argument, and, by reconstructing Grotius’s reply, to settle some longstanding debates about Grotius’s conception of natural law. I argue that (...)
- Cicero and the Philosophic Grounds of Liberty.Michael C. Hawley - 2025 - Polis 42 (1):29-50.The prevailing view of the origin of the idea of republican liberty holds that it emerged as a polemical tool to wield against political opponents in the Roman republic. But viewing republican liberty as partisan rhetorical device has obscured the important philosophical innovations that were necessary to render it theoretically viable and coherent. Turning to Cicero, the earliest extant theorist of republican liberty, I seek to explore the depth of the conceptual revolution that made it possible to articulate that ideal. (...)
- (1 other version)The Partial Coherence of Cicero’s De officiis.Thornton Lockwood - 2025 - The Monist 108 (2):129-140.Martha Nussbaum has provided a sustained critique of Cicero’s De officiis (or On Duties), concerning what she claims is Cicero’s incoherent distinction between duties of justice, which are strict, cosmopolitan, and impartial, and duties of material aid, which are elastic, weighted towards those who are near and dear, and partial. No doubt, from Nussbaum’s cosmopolitan perspective, Cicero’s distinction between justice and beneficence seems problematic and lies at the root of modern moral failures to conceptualize adequately our obligations in situations of (...)
- R. Caldini Montanari, Tradizione Medievale ed Edizione Critica del Somnium Scipionis, Firenze, Sismel Edizioni del Galluzo, Millennio Medievale 33, Testi 10, 2002, 577 pp. [REVIEW]Gabriela Marrón - 2025 - Argos 27:159-160.
- Cicerón y el estoicismo. La construcción estética de la palabra en la retórica latina.Nora Múgica & Liliana Pérez - 2025 - Argos 27:113-121.En el presente trabajo se indaga sobre la concepción ciceroniana del lenguaje en la relación gramática-retórica. El abordaje toma como un punto de partida las concepciones estoicas referentes al lenguaje, para marcar el distanciamiento de la retórica latina y la constitución de una estética de la palabra en vistas a la persuasión. Conformada esta perspectiva, se avanza en el estudio de la relación entre dialéctica y retórica y la consiguiente definición de elocuencia, en la concepción de oratio como elaboración artística (...)
- Imperio, virtud e historia trascendental en Roma: Cicerón y Séneca.Francisco Miguel Ortiz-Delgado - 2025 - Ciudad de México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/ LibrObjeto.Texto que analiza el pensamiento de Marco Tulio Cicerón y Séneca el Joven en torno a las razones del imperialismo romano, la posibilidad de un expansionismo virtuoso, la idea de que la historia muestra la posibilidad de actuar de forma moral-virtuosa. This book studies Cicero's and Seneca's ideas on the reasons of the Roman imperialism, the possibility of a virtuous expansionismo or war, how history demonstrates the recurrent virtuous behaviour in the past.
- La transmisión del texto de Cicerón en Egipto.Ana María Pendás & Rodolfo Pedro Buzón - 2025 - Argos 17:71-80.
- Might Makes Rights: a Ciceronian Critique of Pettit’s Theory of Liberty.Phillip Pinell - 2025 - Polis 42 (2):279-304.Philip Pettit is best known for his defense of liberty as non-domination. Since his initial defense of this concept in Republicanism (1997), scholars have critiqued his normative defense of liberty for failing to capture key aspects of the classical republican conception of liberty. This article contributes to this critique by comparing Pettit’s defense of liberty with an account from his most famous classical source, Cicero. It argues that Pettit misses necessary conceptual and institutional components that allow non-domination to emerge. Through (...)
- Reimagining Political Legitimacy: Ancestral Imagines in the Contional Speeches of Marius and Cicero.Emily Salamanca - 2025 - Polis 42 (2):305-338.Upon election, new consuls were expected to give a public address (contio) to legitimize their rule, traditionally by referencing the ancestor masks (imagines) of their gens, which stood as signifiers of their family’s honor and civic commitment. However, for new men (novi homines) lacking prestigious ancestors, such avenues for legitimization were unavailable. Instead, new men had to re-imagine ancestral legitimacy in light of their own qualifications, often to the discredit of traditional sources of inherited authority. By critically examining the first (...)
- Brian Krostenko, Cicero, Catullus, and the language of Social Performance. [REVIEW]Leonor Silvestri - 2025 - Argos 25:166-169.
- E. Gavoille, Ars. Étude sémantique de Plaute à Cicéron. [REVIEW]Eleonora Tola - 2025 - Argos 24:205-206.
- Kant’s Rejection of Stoic Eudaimonism.Michael Vazquez - 2025 - In Melissa Merritt, Kant and Stoic ethics. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.This chapter situates Kant’s rejection of Stoic eudaimonism within his overarching anti-eudaimonist agenda. I begin by emphasizing the importance of the Stoic tradition for Kant’s critical reception of ancient ethical theory. I then reconstruct the central commitments of ancient Stoic eudaimonism and of Christian Garve’s quasi-Stoic eudaimonism. Turning to Kant’s anti-Stoic argument in the Dialectic of the Second Critique, I argue that the primary target of Kant’s error of subreption (vitium subreptionis) is the Stoic Seneca, specifically his account of joy (...)$114.00 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citationBookmark
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- Cicero's Academici Libri.Francesco Verde (ed.) - 2025 - Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.This chapter examines the reception of the thought of the so-called skeptical Academy, as expounded in Cicero’s Academics, within contemporary philosophy. This task is more complex than evaluating the reception of Pyrrhonian skepticism. While Pyrrhonism, as presented in the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, has been the subject of considerable discussion among contemporary philosophers, Academic skepticism is rarely mentioned. Moreover, when it is mentioned, the ancient source cited is more often Sextus than Cicero. Finally, rather than observing a direct influence (...)
- India en Cicerón y los líricos latinos.Rosalía C. Vofchuk - 2025 - Argos 9:143-158.
- Cicero in the German Enlightenment.Hahmann Andree & Michael Vazquez - 2024 - In Andree Hahmann & Michael Vazquez, Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 391-408.This chapter explores Cicero’s reception in the German Enlightenment, a topic that has garnered less scholarly attention compared to his influence in the Anglosphere. Focusing on Johann Joachim Spalding and Christian Garve as case studies, we highlight Cicero’s profound and often underappreciated impact on German intellectual thought, particularly in shaping ideas about the human vocation (Bestimmung des Menschen)—a legacy that extends even to the towering figure of the German Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant.
- Cicero on Money and Property.Jed W. Atkins - 2024 - In Joseph J. Tinguely, Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money--Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Thought. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 363-383.Cicero’s treatment of property and money stands squarely within the twin currents of the wide stream of Cicero’s political thought: commitments to human sociability and the limits of reason in political affairs. It bears on many of the major questions of political theory he explores: justice; rights; the character, purposes, and foundations of a republic; empire; slavery; virtue; rational planning and its limits; the constitution; just war theory; natural law; the relationship between ethics and politics; statesmanship that seeks to balance (...)
- Cicero and Wang Chong: On Divination as an Ancient Science.Mark Kevin S. Cabural - 2024 - Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 25 (2):252-268.In this article, I delve into divination as an ancient science. My examination focuses on Cicero’s two types of divination and Wang Chong’s interpretation of the concept of spontaneity (ziran 自然), along with his critical attitude. Furthermore, I describe the similarities, differences, or connections between divination and modern science across three domains, including methodology, the place of humans in the world or universe, and the issue of inclusivity and exclusivity of disciplines or areas of inquiry. Ultimately, I highlight three key (...)
- Cicero : statesman and teacher of statesmen.Timothy W. Caspar - 2024 - In Michael Anton, Glenn Ellmers & Charles R. Kesler, Leisure with dignity: essays in celebration of Charles R. Kesler. New York: Encounter Books.
- Ad impellendum satis, ad edocendum parum. Note sul presunto elogio di Varrone ovvero sull'elogio menippeo in Ac. 1,9.Diomira Gattafoni - 2024 - Ciceroniana on Line 8 (1):245-276.This paper proposes an alternative reading of the praise addressed by Cicero to Varro in Ac.1 9, interpreting the passage not litteratim but in a Menippean key. The author seems to take this dedication to Varro as a literary and philosophical challenge — a reading for which there are other clues in the dedicatory letter and in the Letters to Atticus. The initial reticence of Varro’s character resembles that attributed by Szlezák to Socrates in the Euthydemus: before being Cicero encourages (...)
- CICERO'S INTELLECTUAL MANIFESTO - (J.E.G.) Zetzel The Lost Republic. Cicero's De oratore and De re publica. Pp. xii + 367. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Cased, £64, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-762609-2.Margaret R. Graver - 2024 - The Classical Review 74 (1):99-101.
- Cicero on Natural and Artificial Divination.Andree Hahmann - 2024 - Ancient Philosophy 44 (1):225-246.Cicero distinguishes between two forms of divination: natural and artificial divination. Most contemporary scholars assume that Cicero presents a Stoic division and some even draw far-reaching conclusions about the scientific status of divination based on this distinction. However, his justification for the division is apparently contradictory and neither fits with Stoic nor Peripatetic claims that are found elsewhere. This paper examines the exact meaning of the division and sheds light on its Stoic and Peripatetic origin. In this way, we will (...)
- Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy.Andree Hahmann & Michael Vazquez (eds.) - 2024 - Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote philosophical texts as invitations for his readers to think for themselves. His philosophy has continued to unfold over the centuries, repeatedly inspiring new and independent philosophical positions. Since J.G.F. Powell’s pivotal contribution in 1995, we have witnessed countless translations and scholarly treatments of Cicero’s philosophy that emphasize his creativity and influence. (...)
- GUIDANCE ON CICERO'S DE OFFICIIS- (R.) Woolf (ed.) Cicero's De Officiis. A Critical Guide. Pp. xii + 256. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Cased, £85, US$110. ISBN: 978-1-316-51801-4.Michele Kennerly - 2024 - The Classical Review 74 (2):464-466.
- Ring Composition and the Skepticism of the De Republica.Benjamin Keoseyan - 2024 - Polis 41 (3):479-508.The fragmentary state of Cicero’s De Republica makes it difficult to see how it is a unified work. In this article, I argue that Cicero uses ring composition to unify the dialogue as a polemic against the Epicurean prohibition on political involvement. Cicero is following Plato in his use of ring composition, and just as Plato uses ring composition in the Republic to express his views about philosophical method, so does Cicero. Ring composition turns out to be central to a (...)
- Cicero’s Ad Familiares Book Four and the Hermeneutics of the Pro Marcello.Nathan Kish - 2024 - Classical Antiquity 43 (2):364-409.Regarding Cicero’s “sincerity” in the Pro Marcello (46 BCE), interpretative ore resides in Ad familiares 4.4, an artfully composed letter to Servius Sulpicius from fall 46, preserved in a posthumously edited letter-book (Ad familiares Book 4) about civil war and its aftermath. In these minor-key renditions of the dramatic senate scene, Caesar’s pardon of Marcellus, and Cicero’s subsequent speech of thanks, darker themes evoke dissonant, despondent voicings, and Cicero’s response to Caesar’s act rings less sincere than ironic. Read in this (...)
- Legal Analogies in Cicero's Political Thought.Maarten Klink - 2024 - Journal of the History of Ideas 85 (1):1-17.Cicero's political thought is pervaded by analogies of private law that helped him to overcome philosophical difficulties. One serious difficulty was the demand of natural law that property must be owned by the one capable of managing it. This posed a problem to that most remarkable piece of property of all: the res publica. While incapable of managing it, the people was the only theoretically possible owner of the res publica. The legal concept "guardianship" offered a solution. In Cicero's writings (...)
- RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY IN CICERO - (N.) Gilbert, (M.) Graver, (S.) McConnell (edd.) Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy. Pp. x + 268. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Cased, £85, US$110. ISBN: 978-1-009-17033-8. [REVIEW]Giuseppe La Bua - 2024 - The Classical Review 74 (2):462-464.
- The Narratives of cicero's Epistvlae Ad Qvintvm Fratrem: Career, Republic and the Epistvlae Ad Atticvm.Laura Losito - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):105-123.The narrative and design of Cicero's overlooked collection of letters to his brother Quintus (henceforth, QFr.) demand investigation. Within each book, the constituent letters delineate the trajectory of Cicero's life, transitioning from his political prominence to his increasing irrelevance. This narrative unfolds not only within the micro-narratives of individual books but also across the macro-narrative of the entire collection. Containing only letters from Cicero to Quintus dated between 60/59–54 and featuring a notable resemblance to the Epistulae ad Atticum (henceforth, Att.) (...)
- Hidden Gods, Hidden Texts: Aratean Echoes and Allegoresis in Cicero, De Divinatione 1.79.Adalberto Magnavacca - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):336-340.This article argues for an as-yet-undiscovered double allusion to Aratus’ Phaenomena (1–5 and 100–7) embedded in Cicero's De diuinatione (1.79). This intertextual link sheds light on a now-lost passage of Cicero's Aratea and raises some questions about the relationship between Cicero's dialogue and Catullus 64.
- Friends and obligations: Cicero’s De amicitia and a problem in Roman political culture.Sean McConnell - 2024 - In Andree Hahmann & Michael Vazquez, Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 223-244.Cicero provides a detailed examination of the nature and obligations of amicitia (‘friendship’) in the dialogue De amicitia, which was composed in 44 BCE in the febrile period after the assassination of Caesar. This chapter focuses on Cicero’s treatment in this dialogue of a particularly vexed ethical problem: is it sometimes or to some extent acceptable to breach one’s duty to the state or to transgress from what is morally right on account of amicitia?
- A Spirituality for Cosmopolis.Timothy Muldoon - 2024 - Religions 15 (12):1466.This essay will draw from the classical Greek notions of cosmopolis and cosmopolitanism—world citizenship—as a heuristic for contemplating the question of contemporary participation in a wholly good global society. The first part of this paper will explore how the ancient notion of cosmopolis offers contemporary thinkers a compelling hermeneutic for considering cultural growth over history. Then, in part two, it will focus on spirituality, returning to the ancient Greek world through the lens of Pierre Hadot’s work on philosophy as spiritual (...)
- The Inconsistency Charge in cicero's De Finibus 1–2.Dale Parker - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (1):124-134.Cicero often challenged Epicureanism on the grounds of inconsistency. Cicero personifies the charge through his character Torquatus, who defends Epicureanism in De finibus 1–2. Cicero highlights the discrepancies among Torquatus’ beliefs and between them and his behaviour. Torquatus holds that the senses incontestably verify the tenets of Epicureanism, and that logic is superfluous. Yet he is sensitive to the fact that Epicurus’ teachings are not intuitive and require a fair amount of logical argumentation in its defence. Therefore, he defends his (...)
- “Una sola alma”: la amistad en la filosofía antigua.David Torrijos-Castrillejo - 2024 - In Eva Ordóñez Olmedo & David Torrijos-Castrillejo, Amistad: filosofía y teología de una vivencia. Berlin: pp. 29-51.Friendship is a notion that runs through the thought of different ancient philosophers and has the peculiar characteristic of being held in high esteem almost unanimously by all. Although there are earlier precedents, for Socrates friendship takes on great importance and his disciple Plato provides deep reflections on the subject, linking friendship with transcendence. However, the pages of Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' on this subject are undoubtedly the most influential for posterity. For him, friendship has many variants, although he privileges over (...)
- Cicero and Epicurus on Pleasure and Friendship.Katharina Volk - 2024 - Classical Quarterly 74 (2).abstractAncient writers, including philosophers such as Aristotle, often depict friendship as a source of pleasure; by contrast, in his Laelius de amicitia, Cicero describes such relationships as sweet and delightful, but never connects them with uoluptas, which for him is a largely negative term reserved for Epicurean doctrine. This paper argues that there is more to this pointed use of language than Cicero’s well-known dislike of Epicureanism. Considering first the Latin philosophical vocabulary of pleasure and then the vexed question of (...)
- The Appeal to Nature in Cicero's De finibus.Kelsey Ward - 2024 - Journal of Ancient Philosophy 18 (1):103-123.When Cicero examines the varied versions of cradle arguments that appear in De finibus, he finds much to criticize. Though he rejects these attempts to discern our proper ethical ends from the earliest inclinations of newborn animals, he nevertheless accepts that human beings should adopt ends for themselves that are consistent with, and perfections of, human nature. I argue that Cicero uses two connected argumentative strategies to create an appeal to nature that overcomes some basic problems he has with the (...)
- Cicero’s Lamp: Enslavement and the Light of Roman Authorship.Ryan Warwick - 2024 - American Journal of Philology 145 (4):535-561.In a letter to Atticus from 50 b.c.e. (Cic. Att. 7.7 SB 130), Cicero complained that his lamp was going out. This essay reads this fleeting episode in the author’s life against depictions of lamplight across Roman literature, where a lamp’s flame often stands in for the labor of enslaved workers. Such small moments of dissonance can challenge the pervasive perspective of Roman enslavement, revealing other figures standing in the shadows as Cicero wrote. These scribes, grammarians, and lamp attendants all (...)
- Cicero’s Academici Libri and Lucullus: A Commentary with Introduction and Translations. By Tobias Reinhardt.Scott F. Aikin - 2023 - Ancient Philosophy 43 (2):570-574.
- POETIC QUOTATIONS IN CICERO - (H.) Čulík-Baird Cicero and the Early Latin Poets. Pp. xiv + 306. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-316-51608-9. [REVIEW]David Butterfield - 2023 - The Classical Review 73 (2):508-510.
- Cicero and Wang Chong and their Critique of Divination.Mark Kevin S. Cabural - 2023 - Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 24 (1):1-18.This article aims to present Cicero and Wang Chong as theorists of divination. While it has already been determined that they advanced both defenses and criticisms, I specifically intend to focus on their significant criticisms of divination, which emerged as corrective for the practice by supporting or disapproving and extending or limiting its underlying principles. I also emphasize that these thinkers have different objectives and emphases in their criticisms. Cicero’s objective is to maintain the fundamental teachings of their forefathers, prompting (...)
- CICERO'S DE NATURA DEORUM REVISITED - (C.) Diez, (C.) Schubert (edd.) Zwischen Skepsis und Staatskult. Neue Perspektiven auf Ciceros De natura deorum. (Palingenesia 134.) Pp. 277, figs. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2022. Cased, €60. ISBN: 978-3-515-13326-5.María Emilia Cairo - 2023 - The Classical Review 73 (2):506-508.
- Boni Gone Bad: Cicero’s Critique of Epicureanism in De Finibus 1 and 2.Michelle T. Clarke - 2023 - Polis 40 (1):25-43.This paper argues that Cicero’s critique of Epicureanism in De finibus is motivated by a concern about its degrading effect on the moral sensibility of Rome’s best men. In place of earlier objections to Epicureanism, which centered on its inability to explain or recommend the virtuous conduct of Roman maiores, De finibus focuses on its inability to do so properly and, more prospectively, to assist boni in the work of maintaining the dignity and respectability of Roman civic life. Responding to (...)
- The Social Networking Function of Cicero’s Prefaces to the Philosophical Works.Christopher Dowson - 2023 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 167 (1):22-45.The value of the prohoemia or ‘prefaces’ to Cicero’s later philosophical works, composed in the last years of his life, has not yet been settled. Two schools of thought have emerged somewhat more clearly in recent times: one places a greater value on the prefaces as tools for understanding Cicero’s philosophica as a whole, the other applies a more skeptical approach, using a degree of caution as to the nexus between the prefaces and the treatises to which they were affixed. (...)
- Republicanism in Desperate Times: Cicero’s Critique of Cato’s Stoicism.Mark E. Yellin - 2023 - Polis 40 (1):61-74.This essay examines two articles by Rex Stem about Cicero and Cato: ‘The First Eloquent Stoic and Cato the Younger’ and ‘Cicero as Orator and Political Philosopher: The Value of the Pro Murena for Ciceronian Political Thought’. It places these articles in dialogue and draws upon them to present an overarching argument about Cicero’s critique of Cato’s Stoicism. It also assesses their respective defenses of Roman republicanism, offering counterarguments to Cicero’s critique of Cato and underlining the ways in which the (...)
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