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SÜSS, W., Cicero. Eine Einführung in seine philosophischen Schriften (mit Ausschluß der staatsphilosophischen Werke). Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, 1966. 177p. Sewn. Unopened. Series: Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1965, Nr.5. (Rare). 'The object of this work, accurately defined in its title, is introductorym and its design is simple: a chapter on Cicero's education and philosophical background, a chapter on the lost 'Consolatio' and 'Hortensius', seven chapters devoted to the extant philosophical writings, and a final chapter on philosophy in Cicero's Rome. (...) We have here an admirable work, attractive and lively in style, and shrewd and balanced in judgement, full of good things (...).' (A.E. DOUGLAS in The Classical review (New Series), 1968, p.61). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 49.50 (Antiquarian)