Latinitas at Jesus College
Varro’s History of Philosophy in Academica 1
In this post, I have condensed ‘Varro’s’ narrative of the history of philosophy from Academica I into outline form. I give the outline in Latin (sometimes lightly simplified, but quoting Cicero himself as much as possible), because it seems more useful to follow the narrative in its Ciceronian terms rather than in translation. Cicero’s Varro claims to be reporting the views…
New Series: Cicero Philosophy Project
This series of posts on Cicero’s philosophy will feature the observations and reflections of a few postgraduate researchers from Oxford and LMU who have embarked on a project of reading through all of Cicero’s philosophical works. These posts are not intended to be academic articles which present groundbreaking research. Rather, they are our reading notes, a florilegium of sorts, on…
