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Cicero on the emotions [electronic resource] : Tusculan disputations 3 and 4 / translated and with commentary by Margaret Graver.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.Description: 1 online resource (xli, 254 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780226305196 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226305198 (electronic bk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Tusculanae disputationes. English. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cicero on the emotions.DDC classification:
  • 158/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • PA6308.T7 G7313 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS AND MATTERS OF CITATION; INTRODUCTION; ABOUT THE TRANSLATION; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS; COMMENTARY; APPENDIXES: SOURCES FOR CICERO'S ACCOUNT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX LOCORUM; GENERAL INDEX.
Summary: The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position, which he himself favors for its close reasoning and moral earnestness. Both the specialist and the general reader will be fascinated by the Stoics' analysis of the causes of grief, their classification of emotions by genus and species, the.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 159.942:1[Cicero] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.

PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS AND MATTERS OF CITATION; INTRODUCTION; ABOUT THE TRANSLATION; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS; COMMENTARY; APPENDIXES: SOURCES FOR CICERO'S ACCOUNT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX LOCORUM; GENERAL INDEX.

The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position, which he himself favors for its close reasoning and moral earnestness. Both the specialist and the general reader will be fascinated by the Stoics' analysis of the causes of grief, their classification of emotions by genus and species, the.

Translated from the Latin.

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