Cicero's philosophical dialogues

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Cicero's philosophical dialogues are a series of Latin works in which the Roman orator presents and examines major Greek philosophical schools and ideas through dramatized conversations among historical and fictional interlocutors.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin literature
dialogue
philosophical work series
aim to make philosophy accessible to Roman elites
to present Greek philosophy in Latin
creator Marcus Tullius Cicero
linked to: Cicero
features fictional interlocutors
historical interlocutors
question-and-answer format
genre didactic literature
philosophy
historicalContext late Roman Republic
linked to: Late Roman Republic
includesWork Academica
Cato maior de senectute
linked to: Cato the Elder

De divinatione
linked to: On Divination

De fato
De finibus bonorum et malorum
De legibus
De natura deorum
De officiis
De re publica
Hortensius
Laelius de amicitia
Paradoxa Stoicorum
Tusculanae disputationes
influenced Christian Latin authors
Latin philosophical vocabulary
Renaissance humanism
Roman intellectual culture
influencedBy Academic Skepticism
linked to: Skepticism

Aristotle
Epicureanism
Peripatetic school
Plato
Stoicism
language Latin
literaryForm philosophical dialogue
mainTheme Greek philosophy
epistemology
ethics
political philosophy
theology
notableInterlocutor Cato the Elder
Cicero
Laelius Sapiens
linked to: Laelius

Scipio Aemilianus
philosophicalSchoolPresented Academic Skepticism
linked to: Skepticism

Epicureanism
Peripatetic philosophy
linked to: Peripatetic school

Platonism
Stoicism
placeOfOrigin Roman Republic
structure dramatic conversation
timePeriod 1st century BC

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Antiochus of Ascalon sourceOfInformation Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Philo of Larissa sourceFor Cicero’s Academic works
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Tullia Ciceronis subjectOf Cicero’s lost work "Consolatio"
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
On the Appropriate influenced Cicero’s De Officiis
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
On the Appropriate knownThrough Cicero’s reports of Panaetius
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Scipionic Circle source Cicero's dialogues
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Prodicus mentionedIn Cicero's writings
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Virtus appearsIn Cicero's philosophical works
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Anaxarchus reportedIn Cicero's works
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
De topicis differentiis relatedWork In Ciceronis Topica
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Crantor of Soli citedBy Cicero in Academica
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Tullia mentionedIn Cicero's philosophical works
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Cicero's villa mentionedIn Cicero's philosophical works
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Servius Sulpicius Rufus mentionedIn Cicero's philosophical works
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Hortensius mentionedIn Cicero's dialogue "De oratore"
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Hortensius mentionedIn Cicero's dialogue "De finibus"
linked to: Cicero's philosophical dialogues