Cicero on the emotions : Tusculan disputations 3 and 4 /

Cicero on the emotions : Tusculan disputations 3 and 4 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Uniform title:	Tusculanae disputationes. Selections. English
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xli, 254 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Emotions -- Early works to 1800. Happiness -- Early works to 1800. Emotions. Happiness. Electronic books. Early works.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282789

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Other authors / contributors:	Graver, Margaret.
ISBN:	9780226305196 0226305198 9780226305776 0226305775 9780226305783 0226305783
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index. Translated from the Latin. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae disputationes. English. Selections. Cicero on the emotions. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002 9780226305783

Table of 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.