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LITTERATVRA CLASSICA
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 Ars philosophiae
Historical Thread
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philosophy
The thread for posting, commenting and translating Latin philosophical texts. Philosophy, in Rome, was always considered to be "a Greek thing" and food for thought mainly for people who were rich enough to allow themselves off time to practice and write about it. Besides this, philosophy, in the point of view of Romans, was a matter of eclectism: a bit of this theory and a bit of that, just to make philosophy practical. Romans didn't have much to do with exalted and abstract ideas, because they were practical people. Nevertheless, although their philosophical thoughts were not original, the philosophical works they produced are quite interesting. The most famous Roman practitioners of philosophy were (again!) Cicero in the 1st century B.C., Seneca (1st/2nd century A.D.) and the emperors Hadrianus (2nd century A.D.) and Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
