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How Latin philosophical vocabulary developed through the translation of Greek sources, the varieties of translation practices Roman philosophers favoured, and how these practices evolved over time are the overarching themes of this monograph. A first of its kind, this comparative study analyzes the creation of philosophical vocabulary in Lucretius, Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Boethius. It highlights a Latin literary tradition in which the dominance of Greek philosophical expression was challenged and renovated over time through the individual translation choices of different Latin authors. Included are full glossaries of Latin and Greek philosophical terms with explanatory notes for the reader.

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Christopher Dowson completed a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Western Australia, where he also graduated with a Master’s degree in Classics. He received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in Classical Languages and Literature and held a Theodor Heuss Postdoctoral Fellowship in Germany with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, undertaking research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich. He has published in the areas of classical studies, law, and philosophy, most recently The Social Networking Function of Cicero’s Prefaces to the Philosophical Works (Philologus, forthcoming 2023).

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