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Paradoxa Stoicorum

Paradoxa Stoicorum

A rhetorical exercise defending six counterintuitive Stoic ethical claims, among them that only the wise are truly free, Paradoxa Stoicorum shows Cicero using courtroom persuasive technique on pure philosophical propositions.

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