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During the months before and after he saw Julius Caesar
assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Cicero wrote two
philosophical dialogues about religion and theology: On the Nature
of the Gods and On Divination. This book brings to life his
portraits of Stoic and Epicurean theology, as well as the
scepticism of the new Academy, his own school. We meet the
Epicurean gods who live a life of pleasure and care nothing for us,
the determinism and beauty of the Stoic universe, itself our
benevolent creator, and the reply to both that traditional religion
is better served by a lack of dogma. Cicero hoped that these
reflections would renew the traditional religion at Rome, with its
prayers and sacrifices, temples and statues, myths and poets, and
all forms of divination. This volume is the first to fully
investigate Cicero's dialogues as the work of a careful
philosophical author.
During the months before and after he saw Julius Caesar
assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Cicero wrote two
philosophical dialogues about religion and theology: On the Nature
of the Gods and On Divination. This book brings to life his
portraits of Stoic and Epicurean theology, as well as the
scepticism of the new Academy, his own school. We meet the
Epicurean gods who live a life of pleasure and care nothing for us,
the determinism and beauty of the Stoic universe, itself our
benevolent creator, and the reply to both that traditional religion
is better served by a lack of dogma. Cicero hoped that these
reflections would renew the traditional religion at Rome, with its
prayers and sacrifices, temples and statues, myths and poets, and
all forms of divination. This volume is the first to fully
investigate Cicero's dialogues as the work of a careful
philosophical author.
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