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De Natura Deorum
(On the Nature of the Gods)
15th-century manuscript, Vatican
AuthorCicero
CountryRoman Republic
LanguageClassical Latin
SubjectRoman religion, Ancient Greek religion, problem of evil
GenreTheology, philosophy
Publication date
45 BC
Dewey Decimal
292.07
Preceded byTusculanae Disputationes 
Followed byDe Divinatione 
Original text
De Natura Deorum
(On the Nature of the Gods)
at Latin Wikisource

De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) is a philosophical dialogue by Roman Academic Skeptic philosopher Cicero written in 45 BC. It is laid out in three books that discuss the theological views of the Hellenistic philosophies of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Academic Skepticism.

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De Natura Deorum

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De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) is a philosophical dialogue by Roman Academic Skeptic philosopher Cicero written in 45 BC. It is laid out...

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Writings of Cicero

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Rackham, H. De Natura Deorum; Academica. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Loeb Classical Library. 1955. Pease, A.S. De Natura Deorum. Cambridge: Harvard...

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Zeno of Citium

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104, 101; Cicero, de Natura Deorum, ii. 8. Cicero, de Natura Deorum, ii. 22. Cicero, Academica, ii. 41. Cicero, de Natura Deorum, ii. 9, iii. 14. Laërtius...

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Moros

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Perseus Project. Hesiod, Theogony 211 Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17 Perrin, Bernadotte (1959–67). Plutarch's Lives. Cambridge, Massachusetts:...

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Caelus

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citing Mnaseas as his source. Cicero, De nature Deorum; Arnobius, Adversus Nationes 4.24. Cicero, De natura Deorum 2.64. Isidore of Seville says similarly...

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Zeus

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p. 183; Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.467 Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.42; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.392e (pp. 320, 321). Stephanus of...

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Cronus

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Cronos […]. Later interpreted as, = χρόνος": LSJ entry Κρόνος. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 25 "These men [the Egyptians] are like the Greeks who say that Cronus...

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Chrysippus

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233 Cicero, De Natura Deorum, iii. 10. Cf. ii. 6 for the fuller version of this argument Cicero, De Natura Deorum, iii. 10 Plutarch, De Stoicorum Repugnantiis...

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Nascio

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of birth, and a protector of women in labor. According to Cicero in De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), she was worshipped particularly in the...

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Family tree of the Greek gods

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Hesiod, Theogony 215. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.3.1 [= Pherecydes, fr. 33a (FGrHist, p. 79)]...

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Hemera

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Trzaskoma, p. 95). Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44. Hyginus, Fabulae Theogony 1–2 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95). Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.56. Hesiod, Theogony...

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Chronos

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Macey, p. 209. Delaere, p. 97. Levi, p. 274. Marcus Tullius, Cicero. "De Natura Deorum, § 2.64". LSJ s.v. Κρόνος. Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris, 32. West,...

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Proserpina

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Pasiphaes filiam; Spaeth, 1996, p. 131, citing Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.62, and Saint Augustine, De Civitate Dei, 4.11; both of whom most likely used the...

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Infinite monkey theorem

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this idea from Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift...

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Religio

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(1924). The Waning of the Middle Ages. Penguin Books. p. 86. Cicero, De natura deorum II, 28. Caesar, Julius (2007). "Civil Wars – Book 1". The Works of...

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Gold of Tolosa

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Near-contemporary Cicero briefly mentioned it in his philosophical dialogue De Natura Deorum, referencing political scandal in the late Roman Republic with the...

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De fato

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It appears that De Fato is an appendix to the treatise on theology formed by the three books of De Natura Deorum and the two books of De Divinatione. These...

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Erebus

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F6b = Damascius, De Principiis 124]. BNJ commentary on 20 F2; BNJ 20 F2. Athanassakis and Wolkow, p. 172. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44 (pp. 328, 329)...

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Geras

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personification of old age Gerascophobia Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17 Hesiod, Theogony 225 "Collections Online | British Museum". www...

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Hypnos

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Hyginus, Fabulae Theogony 1 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95); Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17. ὕπνος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English...

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Muses

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Tzetzes on Hesiod, 23; Tzetzes on Hesiod, Works and Days 6 Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.53, Epicharmis, Tzetzes on Hes. 23 Epicharmis, Tzetzes on Hes. 23...

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Hermes Trismegistus

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Patrick Boylan, Oxford University Press, 1922. De natura deorum III, Ch. 56 "Cicero: De Natura Deorum III". Thelatinlibrary.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25...

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