NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CICERO’S PHILOSOPHY
February 10-11, 2018
The ethical and political issues treated in Cicero's major philosophical writings have been a topic of lively interest in modern scholarship. With funding from the Matariki Network, from the University of Durham, and from Dartmouth College, this conference brings together an international group of scholars who are actively working on Cicero's ethical and political thought.
Jed Atkins
Cicero on the Justice of War
Nathan Gilbert
Cicero against Lucretius De morte
Margaret Graver
The psychology of honor in Cicero’s De Re Publica
Sean McConnell
Old Men in Cicero’s Political Philosophy
Geert Roskam
Nos in diem vivimus: Cicero’s approach in the Tusculan disputations
Malcolm Schofield
Iuris consensu revisited
Katharina Volk
Towards a Definition of Sapientia: Philosophy in Cicero's Pro Marcello
Georgina White
Skepticism and Fiction in the Academica
Raphael Woolf
Cicero on Rhetoric and Dialectic
James Zetzel
Cicero's Platonic Dialogues
For information on the venue please contact nathan.b.gilbert@durham.ac.uk.
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