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The relevance of Cicero's On Old Age transcends time and culture as it examines with superlative clarity the challenging problem of aging.
Cicero brilliantly addresses the aspects of old age and its sociological problems in a manner that is as relevant today as it was two thousand years ago. With Latin text, notes, and vocabulary, this is a valuable text that intermediate
...moreTascabili Economici Newton - 100 pagine 1000 lire 152, 100 pages
Published
March 1994
by Newton Compton
(first published January 1st 1884)
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One must not read Cicero for the quality and originality of his philosophical arguments. His reasons for smiling at old age are not new, not insightful, but they are also not unreasonable, neither are they incorrect. They are fallible, debatable, and, with the advent of modern medicine, occasionally out-dated (one can hardly fault him for this after over 2,000 years, however), but they are the reasons that, I think, any old person whose put any thought into the subject might give. The problem is...more
Our contemporary world worships youth. We spend hours exercising and dieting to preserve our youth. But this conviction that old age is a miserable condition is not modern. Cicero’s essay “On Old Age” is a 1st-century B.C. defense against the idea that the elderly are useless and a reflection on the pleasures of a ripe and productive old age, a time of life to be envied, not despised.
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January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC
A Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
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A Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
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