Commentary

• Études sur l’humanisme ciceronian

  - Pierre Boyancé, Études sur l’humanisme ciceronian. Collection Latomus 121, Brussels, 1970.

• “Womanly humanism in Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations.”

  - William H. F. Altman  “Womanly humanism in Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations,” TAPA, 139: 411-45,  2009.
  Overview: Like his de Finibus, Cicero’s Tusculanae Disputationes is best understood in the context of his daughter Tullia’s death as a result of childbirth. It is only the uncritical assumption that M. speaks for Cicero that validates reading… More