Title: Cicero on divination
Subtitle: De divinatione, book 1
Description: "This is the first English commentary on Cicero's On Divination Book I that is fully accessible to the reader who knows no Latin or Greek." "David Wardle provides a new translation, an introduction and full commentary. The introduction explores Cicero's treatment of divination in all his works, his purpose in writing On Divination, his use of philosophical sources, and the context in which the work was written. The fully documented commentary pays attention to the development of the philosophical historiographical, and religious aspects of the examples used by Quintus."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Early works to 1800, Divination, Cicero, marcus tullius
People: Marcus Tullius Cicero