Latin 401/501 October 26, 2017 Cicero’s De Natura Deorum (3 books) • Cicero’s life and career (106-43 BCE); his last years? • philosophical translation project of 45-44 BCE (Conte) • DND: conversation at house of C. Aurelius Cotta (cos. 75 BCE), depicted as an Academic/Skeptic, during Feriae Latinae • Velleius (Epicurean), Balbus (Stoic), Cicero (eclectic?) • Book 1: prologue/Velleius’ exposition/Cotta’s refutation
