This volume gathers three philosophical works by Cicero: the Tusculan Disputations, On the Nature of the Gods, and On the Commonwealth. In dialogue form, they examine happiness, grief, death, the gods, and the ideal state. Listen for a clear introduction to Roman philosophical debate and enduring questions of ethics and politics.
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CICERO’S TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS; ALSO, TREATISES ON THE NATURE OF THE GODS, AND ON THE COMMONWEALTH. LITERALLY TRANSLATED, CHIEFLY BY C. D. YONGE. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1877.
page 2HARPER’S NEW CLASSICAL LIBRARY. COMPRISING LITERAL TRANSLATIONS OF CÆSAR. VIRGIL. SALLUST. HORACE. CICERO’S ORATIONS. CICERO’S OFFICES &c. CICERO ON ORATORY AND ORATORS. CICERO’S TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS, the Republic, and the Nature of the Gods. TERENCE. TACITUS. LIVY. 2 Vols. JUVENAL. XENOPHON. HOMER’S ILIAD. HOMER’S ODYSSEY. HERODOTUS. DEMOSTHENES. 2 Vols. THUCIDIDES. ÆSCHYLUS. SOPHOCLES. EURIPIDES. 2 Vols. PLATO. [Select Dialogues.] 12mo, Cloth, $1.50 per Volume. Harper & Brothers will send either of the above works by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price.
page 3NOTE. The greater portion of the Republic was previously translated by Francis Barham, Esq., and published in 1841. Although ably performed, it was not sufficiently close for the purpose of the “Classical Library,” and was therefore placed in the hands of the present editor for revision, as well as for collation with recent texts. This has occasioned material alterations and additions. The treatise “On the Nature of the Gods” is a revision of that usually ascribed to the celebrated Benjamin Franklin. page 5CONTENTS. Tusculan Disputations On the Nature of the Gods On the Commonwealth
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