Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion
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Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion

On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination

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Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion

On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination

About this book

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 to fully investigate Cicero's dialogues as the work of a careful philosophical author.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: Cicero and the Translation of Philosophy from Greece to Rome
  10. Chapter 1 Cicero's Project in On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination
  11. Chapter 2 Velleius the Epicurean
  12. Chapter 3 Balbus the Stoic and Cotta the Skeptic
  13. Chapter 4 Quintus' Stoic Case for Divination
  14. Chapter 5 Marcus' Arguments against Divination
  15. Chapter 6 Marcus' Stance on the Central Question
  16. Appendix 1 Terminology in DND and Div. for Religious Virtues and Vices, and Greek Equivalents
  17. Appendix 2 Velleius' Strategies against his Opponents
  18. Appendix 3 Balbus' Classification of the Gods
  19. Bibliography
  20. General index
  21. Index locorum antiquorum