# Greek and Roman traditions

- Id: `greek-roman-traditions`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `awaiting_taxonomy_review`
- Content checksum: `329943dbbfd011fb9d029f2f9f3126f6baf42f392a5453cf71d19e0c22c944e5`

## Summary

Inquiries into nature, civic life, argument, and the good life that do not reduce to one school.

## Overview

This entry gathers ancient traditions that do not belong to the main families separated elsewhere in the catalogue. Heraclitus works through compressed tensions, Aristotle builds systematic inquiries, Diogenes tests conventions through a way of life, and Cicero carries several Greek debates into Rome’s political language.

The grouping is a navigation aid, not a historical thesis. Every work page keeps its own attribution, concepts, and conditions of transmission.

## Statistics

```json
{
    "thinkers": 5,
    "works": 34,
    "passages": 9681,
    "concepts": 158
}
```

## Thinkers

```json
[
    {
        "id": "cicero",
        "name": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/cicero/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes",
        "name": "Diogenes of Sinope",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/diogenes/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle",
        "name": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/aristotle/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stilpo",
        "name": "Stilpo of Megara",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/stilpo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "heraclitus",
        "name": "Heraclitus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/heraclitus/"
    }
]
```

## Works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "aristotle.eudemian_ethics",
        "title": "Eudemian Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/eudemian-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.metaphysics",
        "title": "Metaphysics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/metaphysics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.nicomachean_ethics",
        "title": "Nicomachean Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.poetics",
        "title": "Poetics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/poetics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.politics",
        "title": "Politics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/politics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.rhetoric",
        "title": "Rhetoric",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/rhetoric/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.academica",
        "title": "Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/academica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.brutus",
        "title": "Brutus, or On Eminent Orators",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.catilinarians",
        "title": "Catilinarian Orations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/catilinarians/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_atticus",
        "title": "Letters to Atticus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-atticus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_friends",
        "title": "Letters to Friends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-friends/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_quintus",
        "title": "Letters to Quintus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-quintus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.lucullus",
        "title": "Lucullus, Book Two of the Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/lucullus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_divinatione",
        "title": "On Divination",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-divinatione/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_finibus",
        "title": "On Ends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-finibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_fato",
        "title": "On Fate",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-fato/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_amicitia",
        "title": "On Friendship",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-amicitia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_senectute",
        "title": "On Old Age",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-senectute/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_oratore",
        "title": "On the Orator",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-oratore/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_legibus",
        "title": "On the Laws",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-legibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_natura_deorum",
        "title": "On the Nature of the Gods",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-natura-deorum/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_republica",
        "title": "On the Republic",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-republica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.orator",
        "title": "Orator",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/orator/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.philippics",
        "title": "Philippics",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/philippics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.paradoxa_stoicorum",
        "title": "Stoic Paradoxes",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/paradoxa-stoicorum/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.dio_orations",
        "title": "Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations",
        "author": "Dio Chrysostom",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/dio-chrysostom/dio-orations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.laertius_book6",
        "title": "Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes Laertius",
        "author": "Diogenes Laertius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/diogenes-laertius/laertius-book6/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.lucian_sale",
        "title": "Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of Samosata",
        "author": "Lucian of Samosata",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/lucian/lucian-sale/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.plutarch_alexander",
        "title": "Life of Alexander, Chapter 14: The Encounter with Diogenes, by Plutarch",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-alexander/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.pseudo_epistles",
        "title": "Pseudo-Diogenic Epistles",
        "author": "Pseudo-Diogenes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/pseudo-diogenes/pseudo-epistles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "heraclitus.fragments",
        "title": "Heraclitus: Diels B fragments",
        "author": "Heraclitus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/heraclitus/fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stilpo.diogenes_laertius_book2",
        "title": "Diogenes Laertius II.11: Stilpo",
        "author": "Stilpo of Megara",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/stilpo/diogenes-laertius-book2/"
    }
]
```