The Revival of Platonism in Cicero’s Late Philosophy: Platonis aemulus and the I
Following Augustine’s lead, Altman reveals the deliberate inadequacy of this pose and argues that Cicero himself, the writer of dialogues who used «Cicero» as one of many philosophical personae, must always be sought elsewhere: in direct dialogue with the dialogues of Plato, the teacher he revered and whose Platonism he revived.
