Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780267847815
Book Description
Excerpt from M. Tullii Ciceronis De Natura Deorum Libri Tres, Vol. 3: With Introduction and Commentary IN concluding a work which has cost me many years of labour, it may not be out of place to state why I first undertook it and what I have tried to accomplish. Believing that the entrance of Chris tianity into the world is the central fact of man's history, the key to all that preceded and all that has followed it, I have always esteemed it to be the highest oflioe of classical scholarship to throw light upon the state of thought and feeling in the two great nations of antiquity at the time of the birth of Christ. It is as a contribution to such an inquiry that the treatise on the Nature of the Gods seems to me to possess a unique interest and value; not because Cicero was himself the most original, the most earnest, or the most religious thinker of his time but because he, more than any other, reflects for us the best tone of his time, because he represents to us most truly its highest level of intelligence and morality. To what extent then do we find in his writings any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.