Cato

Virtue, liberty, severity, and the question whether principle can become destructive.

Topic Hub

The Cato hub connects the dialogue of The Final Virtue with Atlas entries on Cato, libertas, virtus and the Republic. It is the philosophical centre of Livarva’s inquiry into moral responsibility and political failure.

Overview

The Cato hub connects the dialogue of The Final Virtue with Atlas entries on Cato, libertas, virtus and the Republic. It is the philosophical centre of Livarva’s inquiry into moral responsibility and political failure.

Atlas Entries

Marcus Porcius Cato

The figure through whom Livarva examines virtue and rigidity.

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Virtus

Roman excellence and its dangers.

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Libertas

Roman liberty in crisis.

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Republic

The political order whose collapse gives the trilogy its question.

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In the Library

The Final Virtue

The Cato dialogue of the trilogy.

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Source Library

Plutarch

Life of Cato and the moral tradition.

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Cicero

Cato, republican language and elite anxiety.

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Sallust

Moral decline and republican crisis.

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Journal

The Tragedy of Cato

Virtue and political limits.

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Cato and Performance

Austerity, sincerity and public theatre.

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Roman Liberty Was Not Modern Liberty

A warning against anachronism.

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