Cicero the philosopher : twelve papers / edited and introduced by J.G.F. Powell.

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Introduction: Cicero's Philosophical works and their Background / J. G. f. Powell -- 1. Cicero's Plato and Aristotle / A. A. Long -- 2. Cicero's Definition of res publica / Malcolm Schofield -- 3. Silencing the Troublemaker: De Legibus 1.39 and the continuity of Cicero's scepticism / Woldemar Görler -- 4. Probabile, veri simile, and related Terms / John Glucker -- 5. Cicero on Epicurean Pleasures / Michael C. Stokes -- 6. Cicero on self-love and love of humanity in De Finibus 3 / M. R. Wright -- 7. Form and Content in the Tusculan Disputations / A. E. Douglas -- 8. Cicero and the Therapists / Stephen A. White -- 9. Causes and Necessary Conditions in the Topica and De fato / R. W. Sharples -- 10. Cicero's translations from Greek / J. G. F. Powell -- 11. `A self-indulgent misuse of leisure and writing?' How not to write philosophy: did Cicero get it right? / Philippa R. Smith -- 12. Philosophical Badinage in Cicero's letters to his friends / Miriam T. Griffin

Cicero may be best known as a politician, but he was also one of the few significant Roman writers of philosophy. Powell presents a new and exciting selection of current scholarly work on this neglected side of him, establishing Cicero firmly as a serious philosophical writer of continuing importance and relevance.