Browsing by Subject "Latin"
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Rhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall of the Republic in Cicero's Reception of Plato
(2016)This dissertation seeks to identify what makes Cicero’s approach to politics unique. The author's methodology is to turn to Cicero’s unique interpretation of Plato as the crux of what made his thinking neither Stoic nor ... -
The Longest Transference: Self-Consolation and Politics in Latin Philosophical Literature
(2014)This dissertation identifies Cicero's <italic>Consolatio</italic>, Seneca's <italic>Ad Polybium de consolatione</italic>, and Boethius' <italic>De consolatione Philosophiae</italic> as self-consolations, in which these Roman ...