Cicero: On Duties
Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Real Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Editor: E. M. Atkins, Christ's College, Cambridge
- Editor and Translator: M. T. Griffin, Somerville College, Oxford
- Date Published: February 1991
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521348355
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De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Republican order would survive, Cicero here handed on the insights of an elder statesman, adept at political theory and practice, to his son, and through him, to the younger generation in general. De Officiis has often been treated merely as a key to the lost Greek works that Cicero used. This volume aims to render De Officiis, which was such an important influence on later masterpieces of Western political thought, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. A wholly new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and all the standard features of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, including a chronology, select bibliography, and notes on the vocabulary and significant individuals mentioned in the text.
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- Date Published: February 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521348355
- length: 243 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 139 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- contains: 1 table
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Editors' note
Introduction
Principal dates
Plan of the Hellenistic schools
Summary of the Doctrines of the Hellenistic schools
Bibliography
Notes on translation
Synopsis
On Duties
Biographical notes
Index of persons and places
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