Cicero: Academica (Academicus Primus, Fragmenta et Testimonia Academicorum Librorum, Lucullus)

Download or read book Cicero: Academica (Academicus Primus, Fragmenta et Testimonia Academicorum Librorum, Lucullus) written by Tobias Reinhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is informed by a comprehensive analysis of the entire tradition of Lucullus and Academicus Primus, and by a thorough rethinking of the text documented in the accompanying commentary volume. Lucullus and Academicus Primus are a key body of evidence for the development of Academic scepticism, one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity. The texts also shed light on the re-emergence of dogmatic Platonic philosophy in the first century BC.