[New Entry by Raphael Woolf on January 14, 2022.] Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BCE) is best known to posterity as a prominent statesman and orator in the tumultuous period of the late Roman republic. As well as being a leading political actor of his time, he also wrote voluminously. Among his writings, around a dozen philosophical works have come down to us. Philosophy was a lifelong passion for Cicero. In addition to what one might call his strictly philosophical compositions, much else of what he wrote - including his speeches, works on rhetoric, and a large collection of...