Laelius de amicitia
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Laelius de amicitia
（Cambridge Greek and Latin classics）
Cambridge University Press, 2024
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Laelivs de amicitia
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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
Text in English and Latin
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-230) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cicero's last dialogue, De amicitia, is a work of stylistic brilliance containing the fullest examination of the values and problems of friendship to survive from the Greco-Roman world. How do we make (and lose) friends? If a conflict arises between personal affection and ethical behavior, how do we decide what is right? What kinds of people make the most suitable friends? Written in 44 BCE, De amicitia provides both a striking analysis of the conflicts between personal and civic loyalty and a strong statement about the close links between friendship, wisdom, and virtue. In the first full commentary on De amicitia in more than a century, Katharina Volk and James Zetzel provide an illuminating guide to the dialogue, explaining language and style, philosophy, and historical context. An appendix contains a text with commentary of Cicero's famous correspondence with Matius about political and personal loyalty after the assassination of Caesar.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- M. TVLLI CICERONIS LAELIVS DE AMICITIA
- Commentary
- Appendix: Cicero and Matius.
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