SIMPLE COMPLEXITIES OF EDUCATION THROUGH CULTURE IN MARKUS TULLIUS CICERO’S WORKS
The article analyzes Markus Tullius Cicero’s speeches, letters, and literary works which touch upon the issues of education through culture. Speaking about theater, poetry and art (in a wide sense, including the art of life and the art of word), Cicero emphasizes the instructive power of culture and maintains that culture loses its instructive potential if it is purely entertaining.