On Academic Scepticism

<DIV><P>Charles Brittain''s elegant new translation of Cicero''s <I>Academica<I> makes available for the first time a readable and accurate translation into modern English of this complex yet crucial source of our knowledge of the epistemological debates between the skeptical Academics and the Stoics.</P><P>Brittain''s masterly Introduction, generous notes, English–Latin–Greek Glossary, and Index further commend this edition to the attention of students of Hellenistic philosophy at all levels.</P></DIV>