Cicero On The Nature Of The Gods book 2 - Allegorical Interpretation Of Gods - Sadler's Lectures

21/09/2025 13 min
Cicero On The Nature Of The Gods book 2 - Allegorical Interpretation Of Gods - Sadler's Lectures

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Episode Synopsis

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero's work, On The Nature Of The Gods, which critically examines Epicurean, Stoic, and Skeptic perspectives on matters of theology and cosmology

Specifically it focuses upon the presentation of Stoic cosmology and theology by Quintus Lucilius Balbus in book 2, and in particular on his discussion of the Stoics' allegorical interpretation of earlier Greek myth, legend, and religion, which anthropomorphized the gods in ways that the Stoics thought irrational and unbefitting of divinity

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