Cicero, De Natura Deorum Libri Tres 3 Volume Paperback Set
With Introduction and Commentary

A fully annotated edition of Cicero's ambitious theological dialogue, set against the backdrop of the Stoic and Epicurean philosophical schools.

Joseph B. Mayor (Edited by), J. H. Swainson (Edited by)

9781108011006, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 20 May 2010

1294 pages
21.6 x 14 x 6 cm, 1.39 kg

First published in 1880–1885, Joseph B. Mayor's influential three-volume edition of De Natura Deorum places Cicero's speculative theological dialogue in the context of his other writings and the arguments of the Epicureans, the Stoics, the Academics, and their predecessors. Equipped with detailed commentary and a substantial introduction to the history of the Greek philosophy, this edition remains a clear presentation of Cicero's complex philosophical project, an enquiry into the nature of the divine and its relationship to forms of human knowledge. Set within the home of the orator Caius Aurelius Catto, Cicero's wide-ranging work explores questions of divine providence, natural law, the creation of the world, and the worship of the Roman pantheon of gods. As Cicero strives to incorporate a rich inheritance of Greek metaphysics and natural philosophy within the Roman intellectual tradition, the book reveals the intellectual rigour and sceptical wit that characterise his thought.

Volume 1: Introduction
Text of Book I with critical notes
Mr. Swainson's collations of Book I
Commentary on Book I. Volume 2: Introduction
Text of Book II with critical notes
Commentary on Book II
Mr. Swainson's collations of Book II. Volume 3: Preface
Introduction
Addenda and corrigenda
Text of Book III
Collations of English MSS.
Commentary
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]