Tusculan disputations II & V / Cicero ; edited with an introduction, translation & commentary by A.E. Douglas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.

Contributor:

Douglas, A. E. (Alan Edward), editor, translator, writer of added commentary.

Series:

Aris and Phillips classical texts.

Liverpool scholarship online.

Aris and Phillips classical texts

Liverpool scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Tusculanae disputationes. Book 2 & 5

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient--Sources.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

Parallel Latin text and English translation with English introduction and notes.

Summary:

The Fifth Tusculan Disputation is the finest of the five books, its nearest rival being the First. The middle three books, represented in this edition by the Second, are, as the author clearly intended, less elevated, though still showing Cicero's flair for elegant and lively exposition, and providing much valuable information about the teaching of the main Hellenistic philosophical schools, especially the Stoics. They argue that the perfect human life, or complete human well-being, that of the 'wise man', is unaffected by physical and mental distress or extremes of emotion. Against this background, the Fifth puts the positive, mainly Stoic, case that virtue, moral goodness, is alone and of itself sufficient. The book presents Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2021).

Contains:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae disputationes.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae disputationes. English

ISBN:

1-80034-307-8

1-80034-651-4