On Living and Dying Well - Cicero, Thomas Habinek

Category: Classic, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Penguin Classics

Written by Cicero, Thomas Habinek
Read by John Hastings
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

This Penguin Classic is performed by John Hastings. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Thomas Habinek read by John Hastings.

In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero’s philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties, the questions of free will and the justification of any creative endeavour.

This lively, lucid new translation from Thomas Habinek, editor of Classical Antiquity and the Classics and Contemporary Thought book series, makes Cicero’s influential ideas accessible to every listener.
Public Domain (P)2021 Penguin Audio