About the nature of gods. Tusculan Conversations. Speeches

An outstanding idealist politician, a conscientious statesman, an irreconcilable fighter with tyranny and corruption, a deep theorist of rhetoric and a magnificent speaker, a flexible thinker, a brush, a philosopher close to the Stoics and a thoughtful writer who has become a legislator of words and style, Mark Tullius Cicero ( 106 BC - 43 BC) was the figure of an invariably brilliant, at times of tragic, but inspiring even in the black periods of his political and personal biography. The legacy of Cicero for centuries served Europeans with a perfect example of expressive accuracy and the richest source of knowledge about the history of ancient Rome. Even after two millennia, Cicero remains relevant, and not only as a historical source. On the material of its treatises, we still learn the harmony and breadth of thinking, and on its speeches - the principles of discussion and competent argument: skills, especially useful now, when everyone is discussing with everyone, sometimes hearing either opponents or even themselves.
The collection includes the chosen speeches of Cicero, including the glorified Catynarian cycle and the brightest Philippics, the philosophical treatise “On the nature of the gods” - the speculative polemic of the epicureans, academics and the Stoics about the structure of the universe, the Tusculan conversations treatise - imaginary debate about the discords of about The possibilities of a happy life, and the treatise Orator, which sets out the general principles of rhetorical skill