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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Translations
Introduction
Chapter One Otiose Otium: The Status of Intellectual Activity in Late Republican Prefaces
Cicero’s Ennius, or Anxiety about Too Much Philosophy
Sallust, or Anxiety about Writing
Rhetorica ad Herennium, or Anxiety about Status
Chapter Two On a More Personal Note: Philosophy in the Letters
Philosophy as a Basis for Action
Philosophy and Politics
Writing as a Primary Occupation
The Consolation of Philosophy
Chapter Three The Gift of Philosophy: The Treatises as Translations
The Shape of Translation: Tusculans I
Why Translation? De Finibus I
Chapter Four With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space
The Philosophizing Orator: A Stoic or an Academic? Cato versus Cicero in the Paradoxa Stoicorum
Always Philosophizing: Cicero as the Linchpin in De Natura Deorum I
From Oratory to Philosophy: The Logic of Tusculan Disputations I
Chapter Five Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management
Making Friends with Strangers: Topica
Drawing Strength from Tradition: De Senectute
Chapter Six Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction
Looking Back: De Divinatione II
From the Ides to the De Officiis
From Quintus the Elder to Marcus the Younger: The Pattern of Dedications
The Final Encounter: De Officiis
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
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