This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... ideal orator; partitiones oratorice is a kind of rhetorical catechism; Topica is an explanation of Aristotle's Topica; de optimo genere oratorum treats of the Asiatic and the Attic style. y b.--Cicero and Philosophy in Rome. The second department in which Cicero worked in a productive manner was that of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... ideal orator; partitiones oratorice is a kind of rhetorical catechism; Topica is an explanation of Aristotle's Topica; de optimo genere oratorum treats of the Asiatic and the Attic style. y b.--Cicero and Philosophy in Rome. The second department in which Cicero worked in a productive manner was that of Philosophy. The first contact of the Romans with Greek philosophy was no friendly one. Ennius, it is true, translated the writings of the Greek rationalist, Euhemerus; but the very thought that danger threatened from this rationalistic movement in religion, which disintegrated and destroyed the traditional world of deities, and also the idea that philosophy, --which had, indeed, at that time, passed its culminating point in Greece, and appeared in Rome essentially as Sophism, --stood in the way of healthy, practical aims and occupations, had this result, that, so late as the year 155, the three philosophers who came to Rome as ambassadors from Athens, Carneades, the Academic, Diogenes, the Stoic, and Critolaus, the peripatetic, were, at the instigation of Cato, sent away as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, the younger generation made themselves acquainted with Greek philosophy, and it gradually became a requirement of education to have heard Greek philosophers.1 Of the prevailing systems, Stoicism, with its earnest morality and its practical direction, suited the Romans best, because it conceded most to positive religion, and, in general, adapted itself to Roman institutions. Beginning with the younger Scipio, the majority of statesmen and jurists were Stoics. Q. Sextius Niger2 and his son of the same name, who wrote in the Greek language in the time of Caesar and Augustus, both followed a system made up of Stoic and Pythagorean doctrines. In...
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