Abstract
Like his de Finibus , Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes is best understood in the context of his daughter Tullia's death as a result of childbirth. It is only the uncritical assumption that M. speaks for Cicero that validates reading the Tusculans as a rejection of unmanly grief and a celebration of an aloof detachment associated with Anaxagoras. As befits a literary shrine conceived by a Platonist for a woman who gave her life for another, this multi-layered text artfully advocates altruism, a virtuous but compassionate humanism that Cicero was man enough to present as womanly between the lines.
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