Hortensius (Cicero)

Hortensius sive de philosophia ( " Hortensius or the philosophy ") is a font Marcus Tullius Cicero from the year 45 BC The dialogue is named after Cicero's friend, the orator and politician Quintus Hortensius Hortalus. The text, which paid tribute to the philosophy as happy alone -making principle and the overcoming of passions in favor of reason, was very popular in late antiquity. His reading said to have been converted to Christianity a key experience for Augustine on the way to his conversion. A complete version no longer exists, but probably 103 fragments and quotations in other works, 16 of which, inter alia, Augustine.

Expenditure

  • Iamblichus: Call for philosophy. With bilingual edition of Cicero's " Hortensius ". Translated by Otto Schönberger. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg, 1984, ISBN 3-88479-143-5.
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero 's Hortensius, Lucullus, Academici libri. Latin - German. Edited and trans. Laila Straume -Zimmermann, Ferdinand Brömser and Olof Gigon. Artemis and Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7608-1657-6.
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