LATIN

Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum: Libri Quinque

By Marcus Tullius Cicero , Johan Nicolai Madvig

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780511708213, 9781108012423
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511708213
Google Books ID
JAmDDk_Q3fkC
Language
latin
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13911271 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
538\538
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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