On the Good Life

This English selection gathers several of Cicero's late Republican essays on how a free man should live. Typical contents include a book of the Tusculan Disputations on virtue and happiness, a book of On Duties on public and private obligation, the dialogue Laelius on friendship, a book of On the Orator on the training of the statesman-speaker, and the Dream of Scipio, in which a general is shown the cosmos and the soul's place in it. The pieces share a practical ethics drawn from Greek schools and recast for Roman civic life. The volume is a themed anthology, not a single treatise and not a biography of Cicero.

Quarter bound in black leather with paper covers printed with an engraving. Dark brown endleaves and slipcase. Page tops stained dark brown. Single volume issue from 2003 Great Philospophers of the Ancient World set.