Cicero Carneadeus
Abstract
The figure of Carneades appears frequently in Cicero’s works. Indeed, he is summoned at a central moment in the discussion of justice between Philus and Laelius in the third book of De re publica. This article examines the image that Cicero constructs of Carneades in order to show that, for Cicero, Carneades’ significance extends far beyond the passages in which his philosophical ideas and his two speeches for and against justice are invoked. Cicero takes Carneades as a model on which he draws to compose his own works and, this paper argues, which he skilfully surpasses in the process.
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