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Article: The Roman Philosophers: From the Time of Cato the Censor to the Death of Marcus Aurelius. (Reviews).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
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- November 1, 2002
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The Roman Philosophers: From the Time of Cato the Censor to the Death of Marcus Aurelius. Mark Morford. Roufledge. [pounds sterling]45.00. 292 pages. ISBN 0-415-18851-2. Prof. Morford writes 'as a classicist and historian of ideas' and not as a philosopher. His aim in this survey of Roman philosophy is to give readers a 'concise, but not superficial, survey of the writings and ideas of the principal philosophers in the Roman world' from the middle of the second century BC down to the death of Marcus Aurelius in AD 180. He argues that Roman philosophers have been seen as the poor relations of their Greek counterparts. After a general ...
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