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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.

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

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Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom

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Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations

Dio Chrysostom stages Diogenes to examine kingship, freedom, and wealth. These imperial-period orations use the Cynic as an exemplary and provocative character; they witness a later reception rather than transcribe his speech.

What you will learn

Composition: late 1st or early 2nd century CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 5 passages · 26,283 words

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Diogenes Laertius II.11: StilpoStilpo of Megara

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Diogenes Laertius II.11: Stilpo

Seven trilingual units preserve the most continuous late account of Stilpo without turning its anecdotes into memories.

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Composition: first half of the 3rd century CE; testimony about Stilpo
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · French · English
Extent: 7 passages · 1,104 words

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Eudemian EthicsAristotle

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Eudemian Ethics

Eudemian Ethics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 41 passages · 39,333 words

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Heraclitus: Diels B fragmentsHeraclitus

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Heraclitus: Diels B fragments

One hundred forty-five 22B units keep fragment, language, and transmitting carrier together.

What you will learn

Composition: late 6th or early 5th century BCE; quotations transmitted later
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · Latin · English · French
Extent: 145 passages · 3,662 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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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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Life of Alexander, Chapter 14: The Encounter with Diogenes, by PlutarchPlutarch

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Life of Alexander, Chapter 14: The Encounter with Diogenes, by Plutarch

Plutarch tells the celebrated encounter in which Diogenes asks Alexander to stop blocking his sunlight. The scene opposes conquest to sufficiency and makes the king recognize a freedom his power can neither grant nor purchase.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 96-120 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 1 passage · 378 words

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes Laertius

Book VI of Diogenes Laertius gathers biographies, doctrines, sayings, and anecdotes about Antisthenes, Diogenes, and other Cynics. This late compilation preserves essential traditions while combining sources of unequal historical value.

What you will learn

Composition: first half of the 3rd century CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 62 passages · 8,711 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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MetaphysicsAristotle

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; transmitted as a layered collection
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 142 passages · 109,138 words

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Nicomachean EthicsAristotle

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Nicomachean Ethics

Nicomachean Ethics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 116 passages · 89,657 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