Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Cicero is considered to be Rome's greatest orator and prose writer. His writing is some of the best classical Latin still in existence. Cicero introduced Rome to Greek philosophy and created the Latin philosophical vocabulary. Tusculan Disputations has been summarized in the introduction as follows. "The first book teaches us how to contemn the terrors of death, and to look upon it as a blessing rather than an evil. The second to support pain and affliction with a manly fortitude. The third, to appease all our complaints and uneasiness under the