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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.

What you will learn

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

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Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero

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Brutus, or On Eminent Orators

Cicero traces the history of Roman eloquence through the speakers who shaped it. The dialogue combines criticism, portraiture, and an anxious reflection on public speech at a moment when the Republic is losing its freedom.

What you will learn

Composition: 46 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 334 passages · 79,995 words

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Catilinarian OrationsCicero

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Catilinarian Orations

Delivered during Catiline’s conspiracy, these four speeches accuse, mobilize, and justify the actions of the consul Cicero. They show eloquence turning a political threat into a public narrative of the Republic’s rescue.

What you will learn

Composition: 63 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 115 passages · 22,400 words

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Letters to AtticusCicero

Fragments or testimony

Letters to Atticus

In letters to Atticus, Cicero shares calculations, fears, and reversals with his closest political confidant. The correspondence preserves a voice less polished than the speeches, caught within the crises of the late Republic.

What you will learn

Composition: 68-44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 1,479 passages · 211,714 words

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Letters to FriendsCicero

Fragments or testimony

Letters to Friends

The Letters to Friends gather Cicero’s exchanges with magistrates, allies, relatives, and protégés. Recommendations, intelligence, and political appeals reveal the Republic as a fabric of personal obligations, negotiation, and fragile loyalties.

What you will learn

Composition: 62-43 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 1,342 passages · 225,910 words

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Letters to QuintusCicero

Fragments or testimony

Letters to Quintus

Cicero writes to his brother Quintus about provincial government, family ambitions, and the storms of Roman politics. Fraternal affection does not erase stern advice or disagreements about authority, reputation, and prudence.

What you will learn

Composition: 60-54 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 198 passages · 60,446 words

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Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero

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Lucullus, Book Two of the Academica

The Lucullus pits a defence of certain knowledge against Cicero’s sceptical reply. At the centre stands the cognitive impression: can it bear a mark that guarantees truth and therefore warrants assent?

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 148 passages · 25,042 words

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On DivinationCicero

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On Divination

Cicero stages a debate about omens, dreams, and divinatory practices. His brother Quintus defends their validity, after which Cicero tests the evidence through arguments about rational inquiry, chance, and religious authority.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 284 passages · 46,076 words

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On DutiesCicero

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On Duties

Addressed to his son Marcus, the treatise examines what honour demands, what advantage recommends, and why their conflict is only apparent when utility is rightly understood. Cicero translates Greek ethics into Roman responsibilities.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 371 passages · 114,758 words

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On EndsCicero

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On Ends

Cicero confronts Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic-Peripatetic answers to a decisive question: what final good orders every choice? The dialogues assess pleasure, virtue, human nature, and external goods without smoothing away disagreement.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 443 passages · 64,329 words

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On FateCicero

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On Fate

In this fragmentary dialogue, Cicero asks whether causal chains and the truth of future statements abolish human freedom. Modal logic, causation, and responsibility meet in a rejection of inescapable fatalism.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 48 passages · 7,134 words

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On FriendshipCicero

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On Friendship

Cicero gives Laelius, grieving for Scipio, a reflection on friendship grounded in virtue rather than advantage. The dialogue examines loyalty, frankness, and the limits of solidarity when a friend asks for an unjust act.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 104 passages · 29,907 words

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On Old AgeCicero

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On Old Age

Through the voice of Cato the Elder, Cicero answers charges against old age: withdrawal from affairs, weakness, loss of pleasures, and proximity to death. The dialogue defends adapted activity rather than denying decline.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 85 passages · 13,563 words

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On the LawsCicero

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On the Laws

Cicero seeks the foundation of law in a reason common to human nature before examining Roman religious institutions and magistracies. The dialogue thereby connects natural law, constitution, and republican reform.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 52-51 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 181 passages · 26,272 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.

What you will learn

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

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On the OratorCicero

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On the Orator

In this dialogue, Cicero defines the accomplished orator as a mind trained in law, history, philosophy, and human emotion. Speech technique is not enough: eloquence requires knowledge, judgement, and civic presence.

What you will learn

Composition: 55 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 862 passages · 82,291 words

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On the RepublicCicero

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On the Republic

Around Scipio Aemilianus, the dialogue examines justice, forms of government, and the mixed constitution. Cicero confronts the ideal statesman with Rome’s historical fragility, culminating in the cosmic vision of Scipio’s Dream.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 54-51 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 251 passages · 30,060 words

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OratorCicero

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Orator

Addressed to Brutus, Orator defines an eloquence able to adapt style, rhythm, and emotion to each case. Cicero defends variety against making a single austere manner the absolute rule.

What you will learn

Composition: 46 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 238 passages · 24,828 words