Religious Knowledge in Discourse: Cicero`s Dialogues on Philosophy of Religion (D01)

• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 244798977

Religion occupies a prominent place in Cicero´s educational program. Making it a central topic of several of his philosophical dialogues, Cicero establishes a link between philosophy and religion. This project´s main aim is to address the question of how arrangement of discourse and religious knowledge interact in Cicero´s works as well as the questions concerning his independence from his Greek precursors.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1136: Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean and Its Environment from Ancient to Medieval Times and to the Classical Islam
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Peter Kuhlmann