Cicero's "De Divinatione"
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Cicero's "De Divinatione" is a philosophical dialogue in which the Roman orator critically examines the practice and validity of divination and prophetic arts in Roman religion.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Book I of De Divinatione | 1 |
| Book II of De Divinatione | 1 |
| Cicero's "De Divinatione" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9717152 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cicero's "De Divinatione" Context triple: [haruspex, documentedIn, Cicero's "De Divinatione"]
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A.
Cicero’s Dream of Scipio
Cicero’s Dream of Scipio is a philosophical passage from his work "De re publica" that presents a visionary dialogue on the immortality of the soul, cosmic order, and the rewards of virtue.
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B.
Cicero's philosophical dialogues
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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C.
Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio is a late antique philosophical and cosmological exposition on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis that deeply influenced medieval thought on the soul, the cosmos, and dream vision literature.
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D.
Proclus' Chrestomathy
Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
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E.
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia is a philosophical treatise by Giambattista Vico that explores the origins of human knowledge and ancient Italian wisdom as a foundation for his broader philosophy of history and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cicero's "De Divinatione" Target entity description: Cicero's "De Divinatione" is a philosophical dialogue in which the Roman orator critically examines the practice and validity of divination and prophetic arts in Roman religion.
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A.
Cicero’s Dream of Scipio
Cicero’s Dream of Scipio is a philosophical passage from his work "De re publica" that presents a visionary dialogue on the immortality of the soul, cosmic order, and the rewards of virtue.
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B.
Cicero's philosophical dialogues
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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C.
Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio is a late antique philosophical and cosmological exposition on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis that deeply influenced medieval thought on the soul, the cosmos, and dream vision literature.
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D.
Proclus' Chrestomathy
Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
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E.
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia is a philosophical treatise by Giambattista Vico that explores the origins of human knowledge and ancient Italian wisdom as a foundation for his broader philosophy of history and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin literary work
ⓘ
philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
De Fato
ⓘ
linked to:
De fato
De Natura Deorum ⓘ
linked to:
De natura deorum
|
| author |
Marcus Tullius Cicero
ⓘ
linked to:
Cicero
|
| countryOfOrigin | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| criticizes |
astrology
ⓘ
augury ⓘ haruspicy ⓘ omens and portents ⓘ prophetic dreams ⓘ |
| dialogueForm | dialogue between Cicero and Quintus ⓘ |
| examines |
rational basis of divinatory practices
ⓘ
relationship between gods and human knowledge ⓘ role of chance and fate ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Marcus Tullius Cicero (as interlocutor)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cicero
Quintus Tullius Cicero ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic literature
ⓘ
philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book I of De Divinatione
ⓘ
linked to:
Cicero's "De Divinatione"
Book II of De Divinatione ⓘ
linked to:
Cicero's "De Divinatione"
|
| hasTheme |
conflict between reason and superstition
ⓘ
limits of human knowledge ⓘ nature of divine providence ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
late Roman Republic
ⓘ
linked to:
Late Roman Republic
|
| influenced |
Renaissance humanist critiques of astrology
ⓘ
later discussions of superstition in Christian authors ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | Ciceronian dialogue ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Golden Age of Latin literature
ⓘ
linked to:
Augustan age
|
| mainTopic |
Roman religion
ⓘ
divination ⓘ skepticism about prophecy ⓘ |
| partOf | Ciceronian philosophical corpus ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchoolReferenced |
Academic skepticism
ⓘ
linked to:
Skepticism
Epicureanism ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Academic skepticism
ⓘ
linked to:
Skepticism
|
| preservedIn | medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| questions | reliability of prophetic arts ⓘ |
| religiousContext | traditional Roman state religion ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Tusculum ⓘ |
| subjectOf | debate on the validity of divination ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| title |
De Divinatione
ⓘ
linked to:
On Divination
|
| usesMethod |
dialectical argument
ⓘ
skeptical inquiry ⓘ |
| workType | prose ⓘ |
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Subject: Cicero's "De Divinatione" Description of subject: Cicero's "De Divinatione" is a philosophical dialogue in which the Roman orator critically examines the practice and validity of divination and prophetic arts in Roman religion.
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Cicero's "De Divinatione"
linked to: Cicero's "De Divinatione"
subject linked to:
Cicero's "De Divinatione"
linked to: Cicero's "De Divinatione"