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 NERFINISHED
features fictional interlocutors
historical interlocutors
question-and-answer format
genre didactic literature
philosophy
historicalContext late Roman Republic NERFINISHED
includesWork Academica NERFINISHED
Cato maior de senectute NERFINISHED
De divinatione NERFINISHED
De fato NERFINISHED
De finibus bonorum et malorum NERFINISHED
De legibus NERFINISHED
De natura deorum NERFINISHED
De officiis NERFINISHED
De re publica NERFINISHED
Hortensius NERFINISHED
Laelius de amicitia NERFINISHED
Paradoxa Stoicorum NERFINISHED
Tusculanae disputationes NERFINISHED
influenced Christian Latin authors
Latin philosophical vocabulary
Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
Roman intellectual culture
influencedBy Academic Skepticism NERFINISHED
Aristotle
Epicureanism
Peripatetic school NERFINISHED
Plato
Stoicism NERFINISHED
language Latin
literaryForm philosophical dialogue
mainTheme Greek philosophy
epistemology
ethics
political philosophy
theology
notableInterlocutor Cato the Elder NERFINISHED
Cicero NERFINISHED
Laelius Sapiens NERFINISHED
Scipio Aemilianus NERFINISHED
philosophicalSchoolPresented Academic Skepticism NERFINISHED
Epicureanism NERFINISHED
Peripatetic philosophy NERFINISHED
Platonism NERFINISHED
Stoicism NERFINISHED
placeOfOrigin Roman Republic NERFINISHED
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 philosophical dialogues
this entity surface form: Cicero’s Academic works
Tullia Ciceronis subjectOf Cicero's philosophical dialogues
this entity surface form: Cicero’s lost work "Consolatio"
On the Appropriate (Peri tou preponτος) influenced Cicero's philosophical dialogues
subject surface form: On the Appropriate
this entity surface form: Cicero’s De Officiis
On the Appropriate (Peri tou preponτος) knownThrough Cicero's philosophical dialogues
subject surface form: On the Appropriate
this entity surface form: Cicero’s reports of Panaetius
Scipionic Circle source Cicero's philosophical dialogues
this entity surface form: Cicero's dialogues
Prodicus mentionedIn Cicero's philosophical dialogues
this entity surface form: Cicero's writings
Virtus appearsIn Cicero's philosophical dialogues
this entity surface form: Cicero's philosophical works
Anaxarchus reportedIn Cicero's philosophical dialogues
this entity surface form: Cicero's works