RT Book
T1 Cicero on the philosophy of religion: on the nature of the gods and on divination
A1 Wynne, J. P. F. 1979-
LA English
PP Cambridge New York, NY Port Melbourne
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1679405934
AB Introduction: Cicero and the translation of philosophy from Greece to Rome -- Cicero's project in On the nature of the gods and On divination -- The beatitude of Gaius Velleius -- Balbus the reformer and Cotta the pontifex -- Quintus' Stoic case for divination -- Marcus' arguments against divination -- Marcus' moderation.
AB "During the months before and after he saw Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Cicero wrote two philosophical dialogues about religion and theology: On the nature of the gods and On divination. This book brings to life his portraits of Stoic and Epicurean theology, as well as the scepticism of the new Academy, his own school. We meet the Epicurean gods who live a life of pleasure and care nothing for us, the determinism and beauty of the Stoic universe, itself our benevolent creator, and the reply to both that traditional religion is better served by a lack of dogma. Cicero hoped that these reflections would renew the traditional religion at Rome, with its prayers and sacrifices, temples and statues, myths and poets, and all forms of divination. This volume is the first fully to investigate Cicero's dialogues as the work of a careful philosophical author"--
NO Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Cornell University, 2008, titled Cicero on the philosophy of religion : De Natura Deorum and De Divinatione
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PA6296
SN 9781107070486
SN 9781107683563
K1 Cicero, Marcus Tullius : De natura deorum
K1 Cicero, Marcus Tullius : De divinatione
K1 Religion : Philosophy
K1 Stoics
K1 Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
K1 Divination
K1 Hochschulschrift
DO 10.1017/9781107707429