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Reviewed by Malcolm Schofield, University of Cambridge
The revival of interest in Cicero’s philosophical writings continues to demonstrate its vigour. Hot on the heels of The Cambridge Companion to Cicero’s Philosophy (2022) have come two collective volumes offering treatments of his final philosophical composition, De Officiis (often Anglicised as ‘On Duties’), a guide to practical ethics which proved hugely influential right through to the end of the eighteenth century. In 2023, Cambridge University Press published Cicero’s De Officiis: A Critical Guide (edited by Raphael Woolf), a sequence of reflective essays on various themes in the work. Now from De Gruyter we have a similar set of studies.
After a good introduction by the two editors, there follow chapters on the prefaces with which Cicero himself introduces each of the three books of De…
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