Cicerone e la cosmologia platonica

“Somnium Scipionis”, the final fragment of Cicero’s “Republica”, written in a poetic and cultured style, summarises the most essential ideas of Platonic cosmology. It hands down to posterity, also through its interpreters, Macrobius in particular, the design of a universe governed by mathematical principles. It represents a significant cultural tie that is particularly suitable for an interdisciplinary approach.