TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powell,Jonathan G.F.
TI  - Cicero the philosopher: twelve papers 
SN  - 0198152736
AV  - B553 .C53 1995
U1  - 186 20
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Clarendon Press
KW  - Cicerón, Marco Tulio
KW  - LITERATURA LATINA
KW  - FILOSOFÍA ANTIGUA
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices; 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








N2  - 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
ER  -