عنوان

Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum :

(Number (ISBN

9780511708206 (ebook)

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b502773

Title Proper

Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum :

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[Book]

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Libri QuinquePart 1 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Edited by Johan Nikolai Madvig, Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Place of publication not identified :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

publisher not identified,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1876.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (414 pages) :

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digital, PDF file(s)

Series Title

Cambridge library collection. Classics.

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Text of Note

Published in Copenhagen in 1879, this Cambridge edition is the third edition of Cicero's De Finibus by Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804-1886), first published in 1839. A Danish politician and leading classical scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Madvig was critical of what he considered careless German scholarship, and he sought a return to a truer manuscript tradition. His work focussed on Cicero and culminated in the first edition of De Finibus, which defined the standard for sound textual criticism. De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil) is the most extensive of Cicero's works, in which he criticises three ancient philosophical schools of thought: Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Platonism of the Academy of Antiochus. This third edition contains a revised preface outlining Madvig's method of ranking texts, and the five books of De Finibus.

Madvig, Johan Nikolai

Date of Transaction

20151005020621.0

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