Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 1 ¶81 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “On the Contempt of Death”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 1 ¶81
Should I attempt to search into antiquity, and produce from thence what the Greek writers have asserted, it would appear that even those who are called their principal Gods were taken from among men up into heaven.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 1 ¶81, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
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AI-written notesA one-sentence aside noting that Greek writers tell of their chief gods as people who were raised to heaven, a point used to support belief in survival after death.
Themes and situations
- Nature and the cosmos
- Death and mortality
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