The Origins of Cicero

I think there are some very specific Ciceroian angles that actually are particularly sort of characteristic of him. And I think one one we might want to talk about is the fact that he's writing as a Roman. The thing he's kind of obsesses about in the prologue is whether, and he tries to defend the idea that trying to do Greek philosophy in Latin is a worthwhile task. He says Latin is better for writing philosophy in the Greek. So don't give me this stuff about the Greeks.