On Duties | work by Cicero | Britannica (original) (raw)

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contribution by Athenodorus

• In Athenodorus Cananites
  …in the composition of the De Officiis) provide the main sources of information about him.
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Damon and Pythias

• In Damon and Pythias
  …that told by Cicero in De Officiis (“On Moral Duties”). When one of the two friends is condemned to death by Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse, he asks to be granted time to put his affairs in order. Dionysius refuses until the other of the two offers to die in…
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effect on St. Ambrose

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  In St. Ambrose: Literary and musical accomplishments
  …is skillfully modelled on Cicero’s De officiis. He sought to replace the heroes of Rome with Old Testament saints as models of behaviour for a Christianized aristocracy. By letters, visitations, and nominations, he strengthened this aristocratic Christianity in the northern Italian towns that he had once ruled as a Roman…
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system of Stoicism

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  In Stoicism: Later Roman Stoicism
  …the De officiis (44 bce; On Duties) of Cicero. Hecaton, another of Panaetius’s students and an active Stoic philosopher, also stressed similar ethical themes.
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