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020			_a9780691183657 _q(hardcover : acid-free paper)
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050			_aPA6307.A2 _bF74 2019
100			_aCicero, Marcus Tullius, _eauthor. _951237
245			_a How to think about God : _ban ancient guide for believers and nonbelievers / _cMarcus Tullius Cicero ; selected, translated, and introduced by Philip Freeman.
260			_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2019
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 151 pages)
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _acomputer _bc
338			_2rdacarrier _a online resource _bcr
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references
505		0	_aOn the nature of the gods (2.1-44) -- The dream of Scipio
520			_a"The majority of Romans were a deeply religious people, though their religion took on forms most of us in the modern world would find unfamiliar. One of the most popular systems of belief among Roman as well as Greek thinkers was Stoicism. Although not strictly a religion Stoicism had many religious aspects including an understanding of the universe as a materialistic, yet continuous and living whole in which Stoics view both the gods and a supreme God as essential elements. This belief system is clearly expressed by Cicero in a central section of his book The Nature of the Gods, a work in which he has different Romans argue various positions on divinity at length. In How to Think about God(s), translator Philip Freeman presents a new translation of this central section which had tremendous influence on religious thinkers (Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, etc.) for centuries to come. He will also translate Cicero's famous text, The Dream of Scipio, which further articulates the Stoic position on divinity and human immortality. Taking these two fragments of Cicero's corpus of religious writings together, we have a succinct presentation of one of the most influential religious systems of the classical world. Cicero himself varied in his religious beliefs over his lifetime and never wholly embraced Stoicism, but he always admired its teachings and was deeply influenced by them. In these two works he explains fairly and even beautifully the ideas of Stoicism without committing himself to them. How to Think about God(s) is an illuminating illustration of what the key religious thinking was by one of the key religious Roman thinkers at the dawn of the Christian era"--
546			_aIn English translation next to original Latin text ; introduction in English.
610			_aCicero, Marcus Tullius _vTranslations into English. _951238
610			_aScipio Aemilianus, P. Cornelius _cAfricanus minor, _d185 B.C. or 184 B.C.-129 B.C. _951239
650			_aGods, Roman _vEarly works to 1800. _951240
650			_aStoics _vEarly works to 1800. _951241
650			_aTheology _vEarly works to 1800. _951242
650			_aCosmology, Ancient. _951243
651			_aRome _xReligion. _951244
700		1	_aFreeman, Philip, _d1961- _eeditor, _etranslator, _ewriter of introduction. _951245
700		1	_aCicero, Marcus Tullius. _iContainer of (expression): _kSelections. _lEnglish. _tDe natura deorum. _951246
700		1	_aa Cicero, Marcus Tullius. _iContainer of (expression): _lEnglish. _tSomnium Scipionis. _951247
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