On Academic Scepticism

by Cicero, Charles Brittain

Overview

Charles Brittain's elegant new translation of Cicero's Academica makes available for the first time a readable and accurate translation into modern English of this complex yet crucial source of our knowledge of the epistemological debates between the sceptical Academics and the Stoics.

Brittain's masterly Introduction, generous notes, English-Latin-Greek Glossary, and Index further commend this edition to the attention of students of Hellenistic philosophy at all levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872207752
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Series:	Hackett Classics Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Charles Brittain is Associate Professor of Classics, Cornell University.

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Brad Inwood

Brittain's On Academic Scepticism is more than a translation. It is a thorough introduction to the study of one of Cicero's most important philosophical dialogues. (Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy, University of Toronto)