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A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I (Michigan Classical Commentaries)
0472036084 pdf A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I, is the first English-language commentary on the Latin text of Marcus Tullius Ciceros dialogue in almost one hundred years. The defense of divination (the science of predicting the future) offered in Book 1 is illustrated with many entertaining anecdotes that make the argument more accessible to a wider range of readers than many of Ciceros other philosophical works. De Divinatione also preserves many fragments of otherwise lost masterpieces of Roman Republican literature. It is a text important for the study of Roman religion, as well as Roman political and intellectual history. This commentary aims to assist the reader in seeing De Divinatione Read more