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These ten essays on Cicero's "Academic Books" (the "Academia" and "Lucullus") deal with various aspects of Academic scepticism, ancient epistemology, and the history of the Academy. The tradition from Socrates through to Galen is covered, with special emphasis on Carneades, Antiochus and, of course, Cicero himself.

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These ten essays on Cicero's "Academic Books" (the "Academia" and "Lucullus") deal with various aspects of Academic scepticism, ancient epistemology, and the history of the Academy. The tradition from Socrates through to Galen is covered, with special emphasis on Carneades, Antiochus and, of course, Cicero himself.
Autorenporträt
Brad Inwood, Ph.D. (Toronto, 1981), is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto and the author of Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism (Oxford 1985) and The Poem of Empedocles (Toronto, 1992). His recent work has been on the Roman Stoic Seneca. Jaap Mansfeld, Ph.D. (1964), Is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, its historiography and its reception, including Prolegomena (Brill, 1994) and most recently Aëtiana with David T. Runia (Brill, 1997).