 "De Natura Deorum" belongs to the group of philosophical works which Cicero wrote in the two years preceding his death in 43 BC.He states near the beginning of "Dē Nātūra Deōrum" that he wrote them both as a relief from the political inactivity to which he was reduced by the supremacy of Julius Caesar, and as a distraction from the grief caused by the death of his daughter Tullia.The dialogue is supposed to take place in Rome at the house of Gaius Aurelius Cotta.