About the nature of the gods. Tusculan conversations. Speech. Cicero

An outstanding idler politician, a bona fide statesman, an irreconcilable fighter with tyranny and corruption, a deep theoretician of rhetoric and a magnificent speaker, a flexible thinker, erudis, a philosopher close to the Stoics and a thoughtful writer who has become a legislator of words and style for many centuries, Mark Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was the figure of an invariably brilliant, at times, at times, but inspiring even in the black periods of his political and personal biography. The legacy of Cicero for centuries served Europeans with a perfect example of expressive accuracy and the richest source of knowledge about the history of ancient Rome. Even after two millennia, Cicero remains relevant, and not only as a historical source. On the material of its treatises, we still learn the harmony and breadth of thinking, and on its speeches, the principles of discussion and competent argumentation: skills, especially useful now, when everyone is discussing with everyone, sometimes hearing either opponents, or even themselves.

The collection includes the chosen speeches of Cicero, including the famous Catynarian cycle and the brightest Philippics; The philosophical treatise "On the nature of the gods" is a speculative polemic of the Epicureans, academicians and Stoics about the structure of the universe; Treaty "Tusculan conversations" - imaginary disputes about the possibility of a happy life; and the treatise "Orator", which sets out the general principles of rhetorical skill.