Cicero's Two Loves

Key Words: Cicero; dependency; friendship; love; parental affection; virtue.   Abstract: This paper explores a tension within Cicero’s De amicitia between the love for friends, which is ideally predicated on an appreciation of the friend’s virtue, and the natural or instinctive affection of parents...

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Main Author: David Konstan
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2017-11-01
Series:Ciceroniana On Line
Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/2502