Cicero: Academica (Academicus Primus, Fragmenta Et Testimonia - Academicorum Librorum, Lucullus)

This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is informed by a comprehensive analysis of the entire tradition of Lucullus and Academicus Primus, and by a thorough rethinking of the text documented in the accompanying commentary volume. Lucullus and Academicus Primus are a key body of evidence for the development of Academic scepticism, one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity. The texts also shed light on the re-emergence of dogmatic Platonic philosophy in the first century BC.

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• Authors: Tobias Reinhardt, Tobias (University of Oxford) Reinhardt
• Assisted by: Tobias Reinhardt (Editor), Reinhardt Tobias (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9780199249572
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924957-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 190 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Classical Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts