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By "jjkarn" (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Nature of the Gods: And on Divination (Great Books in Philosophy) (Paperback)
This translation is horrible. In fact, every translation of an older text that I've read from this publisher has been terrible. It's incredibly wooden and hard to follow.The book itself (The Nature of the Gods), on the other hand, is great. It was written (of course) by Cicero, who was one of the greatest writers, statesmen, and philophers of his time and is the one actually brought many of the philosophical term from Greek into Latin, which made it possible for many Romans to discuss philosophy, whereas they could not before. It gives a glimpse of the leading philosophies of his day: Epicureanism, Stoicism, etc. It's definitely worth reading (a different translation). I would suggest the Penguin edition. To the publisher's credit, there's excellent biographical sketch of Cicero in the front of the book, which is helpful and concise. |
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The Nature of the Gods: And on Divination (Great Books in Philosophy) by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Paperback - Dec. 1997)
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