Cicero's Tusculan disputations

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Cicero's Tusculan disputations

edited by Charles Brittain, James Warren

Cambridge University Press, 2025

  • : hardback

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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and indexes

Summary:"A collection of new essays from world-leading experts exploring the philosophical context and content of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations. Topics include discussions of the emotions, of the fear of death, and the possibility that virtue may be sufficient for a happy life"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

  • Introducing the Tusculans / James Warren
  • The aims and argument of the Tusculan disputations / Rachel Barney
  • Persuasion and plausibility in Tusculans 1 / Raphael Woolf
  • Cicero's De Morte : Epicureanism in Tusculan Disputations 1 / Nathan Gilbert
  • Pain, shame, and manliness in Cicero Tusculan Disputations 2 / James Warren
  • Resisting the blows of fortune : Cicero's use of the Stoics' account of the emotions in the Tusculans / Sharon Weisser
  • The role of magnitude in Stoic emotions / Tad Brennan
  • Peripatetic metriopatheia in the Tusculan Disputations / Georgia Tsouni
  • Tusculan Disputations 5 / Julia Annas

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