On Stoic Good and Evil: De Finibus Bonorum Et Malorum, Liber III ; And, Paradoxa Stoicorum

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Aris & Phillips, 1991 - 220 pagine
Cicero's De Finibus 3 gives in Latin, through the persona of Cato, an outline of Stoic ethical theory, and is the main continuous text on this subject extant from the ancient world. This edition with text and sub-titles, facing translation and commentary, aims to present to the modern reader the arguments in a clear and accessible form against the background of the turmoil of political events in Rome surrounding the death of Caesar, and in a presentation that will allow those with only a little Latin to follow the original text. The Paradoxes give in a more popular form, and with many examples from Roman life and history, the contradictions resulting from a literal or unsympathetic application of strict Stoic theory to practice. Rosemary Wright has taught at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and was Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. She is currently Head of Department at University of Wales, Lampeter.

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Rosemary Wright is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Wales Lampeter. Her publications include Cosmology in Antiquity (Routledge, 1995), The Presocratics: The Main Fragments in Greek with Introduction, Commentary and Appendix (Bristol Classical Press, 1985), and Empedocles of Acragas (Yale University Press, 1981).

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