The Tusculan Disputations is a series of five books in which Cicero, drawing on Greek philosophy, examines what is needed for a happy life — confronting the fear of death, the endurance of pain, the management of grief and the passions, and the sufficiency of virtue. This volume also gathers his treatises On the Nature of the Gods and On the Commonwealth.
This free EPUB edition has been carefully cleaned and formatted for modern e-readers. Written to bring Greek philosophical thought to a Roman audience, Cicero’s accessible, eloquent works remain a key source for Stoic and Academic ideas and for ancient debates on religion and politics.