Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Cicero is considered to be Romes greatest orator and prose writer. His writingis some of the best classical Latin still in existence. Cicero introduced Rometo G... » 

Cicero is considered to be Romes greatest orator and prose writer. His writingis some of the best classical Latin still in existence. Cicero introduced Rometo Greek philosophy and created the Latin philosophical vocabulary. TusculanDisputations has been summarized in the introduction as follows. The firstbook teaches us how to contemn the terrors of death and to look upon it as ablessing rather than an evil. The second to support pain and affliction with amanly fortitude. The third to appease all our complaints and uneasiness underthe «