Research Catalog

Title

The nature of the gods / Cicero ; translated with an introduction and notes by P.G. Walsh.

Author

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 2008.

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Additional Authors

Walsh, P. G. (Patrick Gerard)

Description

lv, 230 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light they cast on the intellectual life of first-century Rome. The Nature of the Gods is a central document in this area, for it presents a detailed account of the theologies of the Epicureans and of the Stoics, together with the critical objections to these doctrines raised by the Academic school.

Series Statement

OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS

Uniform Title

De natura deorum. English.

Alternative Title

De natura deorum.

Subject

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius v106-v43
• Gods, Roman > Early works to 1800
• Theology > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlii]-xlv) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9780199540068 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008482133

OCLC

• 223948487
• SCSB-11062547

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library