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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Cicero's Books of Friendship, Old Age, and Scipio's Dream
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Pages : 256
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Books of Friendship, Old Age, & Scipio's Dream
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Cicero's Books of Friendship, Old Age, and Scipio's Dream
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Pages : 268
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The Dream of Scipio
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Languages : la
Pages : 70
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Languages : la
Pages : 70
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British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books: Cicero
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Authors, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Authors, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Cicero's Three Books of Offices
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Pages : 368
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Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's dream, and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate, tr. by C.R. Edmonds
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Pages : 364
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The Dream of Scipio
Author: Iain Pears
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 539
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Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 539
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Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.
Cicero's Three Books of Offices of Moral Duties
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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