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Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's defeat of Pompey's forces at Munda and return to Rome as dictator was causing him great fears and concerns for himself, his friends and the Republic itself. This collection of new essays offers a holistic critical commentary on this important work. World-leading experts consider its historical and philosophical context and the central arguments and themes of each of the five books, which include the treatment of the fear of death, the value of pain, the Stoic account of the emotions and the thesis that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Each chapter pays close attention to Cicero's own method of philosophy, and the role of rhetoric and persuasion in pursuing his inquiries.
Contents
Introducing the Tusculans James Warren; 1. The aims and argument of the Tusculan Disputations Rachel Barney; 2. Persuasion and plausibility in Tusculans 1 Raphael Woolf; 3. Cicero's De Morte: epicureanism in Tusculan Disputations 1 Nathan Gilbert; 4. Pain, shame, and manliness in Cicero Tusculan Disputations 2 James Warren; 5. Resisting the blows of fortune: Cicero's use of the Stoics' account of the emotions in the Tusculans Sharon Weisser; 6. The role of magnitude in Stoic emotions Tad Brennan; 7. Peripatetic metriopatheia in the Tusculan Disputations Georgia Tsouni 8. Tusculan Disputations 5 Julia Annas.
