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Multilingual works: 259
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AcademicaCicero

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Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

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Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 215,055 words

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Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades

Fragments or testimony

Ancient testimonia on Carneades

One hundred carrier passages follow Carneades from criticism of certain apprehension to probable judgment without inventing a book for him.

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Composition: carriers from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE; testimonia on Carneades
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · Latin · French · English
Extent: 100 passages · 35,730 words

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Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca

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Moral Letters to Lucilius

Seneca turns the letter into a moral workshop: ordinary situations become tests of judgement, time, and freedom. Lucilius is both addressee and partner in a course of practice the reader is invited to continue.

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Composition: c. 62-65 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · French · English
Extent: 2,141 passages · 209,173 words

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On Common Conceptions against the StoicsPlutarch

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On Common Conceptions against the Stoics

On Common Conceptions against the Stoics observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

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Composition: late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 50 passages · 19,048 words

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On Stoic Self-ContradictionsPlutarch

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On Stoic Self-Contradictions

On Stoic Self-Contradictions observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 47 passages · 16,570 words

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On the Nature of the GodsCicero

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On the Nature of the Gods

Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic speakers confront accounts of gods, providence, and the world. Cicero distributes argument among several voices so theology, physics, and criticism of evidence can answer one another without a summary conclusion.

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Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 386 passages · 49,688 words

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Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Sextus presents Pyrrhonian scepticism as an ability to oppose appearances and arguments until judgement is suspended. Tranquillity then follows without affirming a doctrine about the real nature of things.

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Composition: c. 180-220 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 3 passages · 68,840 words

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The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. PearsonZeno of Citium

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The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. Pearson

A. C. Pearson gathers and comments on available witnesses to Zeno in a scholarly edition also devoted to Cleanthes. The Zeno section transmits ancient sources through a modern editor’s selection, order, critical text, and interpretation.

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Composition: late 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; fragments and testimonia transmitted later
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 181 passages · 53,614 words

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The Stoics Speak More Absurdly than the PoetsPlutarch

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The Stoics Speak More Absurdly than the Poets

The Stoics Speak More Absurdly than the Poets observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

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Composition: late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 6 passages · 815 words

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Tusculan DisputationsCicero

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Tusculan Disputations

In five debates held at Tusculum, Cicero examines fear of death, pain, grief, passions, and the sufficiency of virtue. Philosophy becomes argumentative therapy against judgements that enslave the mind.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 475 passages · 182,021 words