Olof Gigon Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the 6th century while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust. Though a Christian, Boethius details the true end of life as the soul's knowledge of God, and consoles himself with the tenets of Greek philosophy, not with Christian precepts. Written in a form called Meippean Satire that alternates between prose & verse, Boethius' work often consists of a story told by Ovid or Horace to illustrate the philosophy being expounded. The Consolation of Philosophy dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages. It inspired writers as diverse Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun & Dante. In England it was rendered into Old English by Alfred the Great, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation. The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanor of the author, and the Meippean texture of part prose, part verse have been a fascination for students of philosophy, literature and religion ever since.

This 2001 translation of Cicero's important work on ethics does justice to the argumentative vigour and philosophical ideas of the text, and the volume also offers a clear and helpful introduction and notes.

I-IV -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Die Vorsokratiker -- Zu Anaxagoras -- Die Theologie der Vorsokratiker -- Gorgias 'Über das Nichtsein' -- Studien zu Platons Protagoras -- Das Einleitungsgespräch der Gesetze Platons -- Platons Euthyphron -- Platon und die politische Wirklichkeit -- Der Historiker Poseidonios -- Georg Pfligersdorffer, Studien zu Poseidonios -- Rez.: W. Spoerri, Späthellenistische Berichte über Welt, Kultur und Götter. Untersuchungen zu Diodor von Sizilien -- Zur Geschichtsschreibung der römischen Republik -- Probleme der römischen Religionsgeschichte -- Cicero und Aristoteles -- Die Szenerie des ciceronischen Hortensius -- ?. Tulli Ciceronis De natura deorum libri ed. by A. S. Pease -- Akusilaos, Cicero und Varro -- Plinius und der Zerfall der antiken Naturwissenschaft -- Rez.: Harald Hagendahl, Latin fathers and the classics -- Zur Geschichte der sogenannten Neuen Akademie -- Quellenangaben -- Register -- 443-446