| Cicero: On Moral Ends Contributor(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author), Annas, Julia (Editor), Woolf, Raphael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521660610 ISBN-13: 9780521660617 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $75.04 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age )with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient world. The Roman and Ciceronian qualities of the work are emphasized, rather than the search for lost sources that occupied scholars in the past. Matters of text, language, and content are all considered equally in the commentary. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Reference |
| Dewey: 171 |
| LCCN: 2002265146 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.17" W x 9.21" (0.96 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy freshly available to modern readers. Cicero was an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader philosophically engaged in the important debates. Raphael Woolf's translation does justice to Cicero's argumentative vigor as well as to the philosophical ideas involved, while Julia Annas' introduction and notes provide a clear and accessible explanation of the philosophical context of the work. |