Cicero's philosophical dialogues

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Latin literature dialogue philosophical work series

Cicero's philosophical dialogues are a series of Latin works in which the Roman orator presents and examines major Greek philosophical schools and ideas through dramatized conversations among historical and fictional interlocutors.

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Label	Occurrences
Cicero's dialogues	1
Cicero's philosophical dialogues canonical	1
Cicero's philosophical works	1
Cicero's works	1
Cicero's writings	1
Cicero’s Academic works	1
Cicero’s De Officiis	1
Cicero’s lost work "Consolatio"	1
Cicero’s reports of Panaetius	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8240930 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Context triple: [Antiochus of Ascalon, sourceOfInformation, Cicero's philosophical dialogues]

A. Cicero’s letters
Cicero’s letters are a collection of personal and political correspondence by the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, offering a vivid primary source on late Republican Roman history, culture, and rhetoric.
B. Cicero’s Dream of Scipio
Cicero’s Dream of Scipio is a philosophical passage from his work "De re publica" that presents a visionary dialogue on the immortality of the soul, cosmic order, and the rewards of virtue.
C. Late dialogues of Plato
The Late dialogues of Plato are a group of his final philosophical works, marked by more complex, technical treatments of metaphysics, logic, and method than his earlier writings.
D. Socratic dialogues of Plato
The Socratic dialogues of Plato are a series of philosophical texts in which Socrates engages interlocutors through probing questions to explore ethics, knowledge, justice, and the nature of reality.
E. De rhetorica et virtutibus
De rhetorica et virtutibus is a Latin treatise on rhetoric and moral virtues by the Carolingian scholar Alcuin of York, composed as an instructional dialogue for the court of Charlemagne.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Cicero's philosophical dialogues
Target entity description: Cicero's philosophical dialogues are a series of Latin works in which the Roman orator presents and examines major Greek philosophical schools and ideas through dramatized conversations among historical and fictional interlocutors.

A. Cicero’s letters
Cicero’s letters are a collection of personal and political correspondence by the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, offering a vivid primary source on late Republican Roman history, culture, and rhetoric.
B. Cicero’s Dream of Scipio
Cicero’s Dream of Scipio is a philosophical passage from his work "De re publica" that presents a visionary dialogue on the immortality of the soul, cosmic order, and the rewards of virtue.
C. Late dialogues of Plato
The Late dialogues of Plato are a group of his final philosophical works, marked by more complex, technical treatments of metaphysics, logic, and method than his earlier writings.
D. Socratic dialogues of Plato
The Socratic dialogues of Plato are a series of philosophical texts in which Socrates engages interlocutors through probing questions to explore ethics, knowledge, justice, and the nature of reality.
E. De rhetorica et virtutibus
De rhetorica et virtutibus is a Latin treatise on rhetoric and moral virtues by the Carolingian scholar Alcuin of York, composed as an instructional dialogue for the court of Charlemagne.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Latin literature ⓘ dialogue ⓘ philosophical work series ⓘ
aim	to make philosophy accessible to Roman elites ⓘ to present Greek philosophy in Latin ⓘ
creator	Marcus Tullius Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ
features	fictional interlocutors ⓘ historical interlocutors ⓘ question-and-answer format ⓘ
genre	didactic literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ
historicalContext	late Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
includesWork	Academica NERFINISHED ⓘ Cato maior de senectute NERFINISHED ⓘ De divinatione NERFINISHED ⓘ De fato NERFINISHED ⓘ De finibus bonorum et malorum NERFINISHED ⓘ De legibus NERFINISHED ⓘ De natura deorum NERFINISHED ⓘ De officiis NERFINISHED ⓘ De re publica NERFINISHED ⓘ Hortensius NERFINISHED ⓘ Laelius de amicitia NERFINISHED ⓘ Paradoxa Stoicorum NERFINISHED ⓘ Tusculanae disputationes NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Christian Latin authors ⓘ Latin philosophical vocabulary ⓘ Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman intellectual culture ⓘ
influencedBy	Academic Skepticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Aristotle ⓘ Epicureanism ⓘ Peripatetic school NERFINISHED ⓘ Plato ⓘ Stoicism NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Latin ⓘ
literaryForm	philosophical dialogue ⓘ
mainTheme	Greek philosophy ⓘ epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ
notableInterlocutor	Cato the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ Laelius Sapiens NERFINISHED ⓘ Scipio Aemilianus NERFINISHED ⓘ
philosophicalSchoolPresented	Academic Skepticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Epicureanism NERFINISHED ⓘ Peripatetic philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Platonism NERFINISHED ⓘ Stoicism NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfOrigin	Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
structure	dramatic conversation ⓘ
timePeriod	1st century BC ⓘ

How these facts were elicited