Epicurean
This Latin source by Lucretius is where we learn about Epicurean philosophy.
What is De Rerum Natura?
Cicero was a contemporary with this dictator who meets his demise on the Ides of March 44 B.C.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This Stoic philosopher internalized in ways that make his presentation of philosophy different from Cicero's and anticipatory of Marcus Aurelius.
Who is Seneca?
The renewal of interest in Platonism is reflected in Latin works transmitted under the name of __________.
Who is Apuleius?
Lucretius at the beginning of his poem, looks to Epicureanism as the antidote to the ______ or discordia and competition that were wrecking the Roman Republic.
What is strife?
The Epicurean school was flourish at this town near Pompeii which gets the pryoclastic mud in the 79A.D. eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
What is the town of Herculaneum?
Cicero, Atticus, Varro, Brutus and Horace studied with the philosopher Cratippus in this city where Atticus derives his name.
What is Athens?
This stoic philosopher wrote, Moral Letters to Lucilius after retiring in 62 AD from imperial duties.
Who is Seneca?
This is a handbook exposition, covering cosmology and metaphysics in Book I and ethics in Book 2.
What is On Plato and his Doctrine?
When in prison in the end of his life, he wrote, The Consolation of Philosophy combining prose and verse. He imagines himself conversing with Philosophy, who asks him to withdraw his thoughts of happiness from fortune and locate them completely in god as his chief god.
Lucretius includes fundamental topics such as the _________ 'swerve', the evolution of society and the anthropology of religion about which we learn nothing from Epicurus himself.
What is the atomic 'swerve'?
Cratippus was a leading Peripatetic which also means this___________.
What is itinerant?
Prominent Stoics included Musonius Rufus, whose lectures at Rome, delivered in Greek were attended by the emancipated Phrygian slave by this name.
Who is Epictetus?
Philosophical works attributed to Apuleius are also symptomatic of intellectual interests at their probable date of composition (late second century AD): a book on demonology, a translation and adaptation of the pseudo- Aristotelian cosmological treatise called _______________.
What is On the World (De mundo)?
He wrote a Neoplatonic commentary of 'Scipio's dream' the other-worldly vision with which Cicero ends his De republica modelled on the myth of Er in Plato's Republic.
Who is Macrobius?
Epicurus mentions to not fear god, death, or to have excesses in ________and ___________.
What are pleasure and pain?
Cicero like other ambitious Romans, had strongly practical as well a theoretical motivations for studying techniques of ____ and ___ argumentation under his teacher Philo.
What are pro and contra?
On leaving Rome, Epictetus established a Stoic school at this polis in western Greece.
What is Nicopolis?
Special attention to Plato's _________, was not new because Cicero had written an incomplete translation of the work.
What is Timaeus?
This Christian writer relies heavily on Stoicism to write this work On the Soul.
Who is Tertullian?
Translate this sentence from Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, "quārē, nisi lūminis illa minōra corpora sunt quam dē quibus est liquor almus aquārum?"
Cicero recognizes the difference between __________ or the love of learning and ___________ the art of public speaking but he constantly insists on the desirability of combining them, to the mutual advantage of each.
What are philosophy and rhetoric?
Marcus Aurelius, as emperor, established at Athens fours chairs of philosophy: _________, _________, __________, and ___________.
What are Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism and Epicureanism?
List three other Latin Platonists.
Both Tertullian and ___________ express their approval of Seneca, who believed to have corresponded with St. Paul.
Who is Lactantius?