A Commentary On Lucretius De Rerum Natura

Author : Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0199263965

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Lucretius on Creation and Evolution by Gordon Lindsay Campbell Pdf

Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It gives an anti-teleological mechanistic theory of zoogony and the origin of species that does away with the need for any divine aidor design in the process, and accordingly it has been seen as a forerunner of Darwin's theory of evolution. This commentary locates Lucretius in both the ancient and modern contexts, and treats Lucretius' ideas as very much alive rather than as historical concepts. The recent revival of creationismmakes this study particularly relevant to contemporary debate, and indeed, many of the central questions posed by creationists are those Lucretius attempts to answer.

Author : Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199243581

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A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura by Don Fowler Pdf

'In Lucretius on Atomic Motion Don Fowler produces a commentary of Lucretius like no other. His commentary achieves the status of a meta-commentary... what makes this commentary claim our attention is the range of texts, both poetic and philosophical, ancient and modern, that Fowler brings to bear in revealing the deep background --and the later fortune - of Lucretius' poem.' -Diskin Clay, Times Literary SupplementThis is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura. The late Don Fowler sets new standards for Lucretian studies in his awesome command both of the ancient literary, philological, and philosophical background to this Latin Epicurean poem, and of the relevant modern scholarship.

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus,Algernon Paul Sinker
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introduction to Lucretius by Titus Lucretius Carus,Algernon Paul Sinker Pdf

Author : Lucretius,Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Classical Texts
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780856683084

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De Rerum Natura IV by Lucretius,Titus Lucretius Carus Pdf

With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780856686948

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De Rerum Natura III by Titus Lucretius Carus Pdf

Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears.

Author : T.H.M. Gellar-Goad
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472131808

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Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter by T.H.M. Gellar-Goad Pdf

"The aim of this study is to track De Rerum Natura along two paths of satire. One is the broad boulevard of satiric literature from the beginnings of Greek poetry to the plays, essays, and broadcast media of the modern world. The other is the narrower lane of Roman verse satire, satura, whose canon begins in the Middle Republic with Ennius and Lucilius and closes with Juvenal, an author of the Flavian era. The first main portion of this book (chapters 2-3) focuses on Lucretius and Roman satura, while the following chapters broaden the scope to satiric elements of Lucretius more generally, but still with plenty of reference to the poets of Roman satura as satirists par excellence. By examining how Lucretius' poem employs the tools, techniques, and tactics of satire-by evaluating how and where in De Rerum Natura the speaker functions as a satirist-we gain, I argue, a fuller, richer understanding of how the poem works and how its poetry interacts with its purported philosophical program. Attention to the role of De Rerum Natura in the more specific tradition of Roman verse satire demonstrates that Lucretius' poem stands as a detour on the genre's highway, a swerve in the trajectory of satura. The numerous satiric passages and frequently satiric narrator of De Rerum Natura draw on earlier Roman satire, and in turn the poem influences the later satiric verse of Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. While De Rerum Natura is not in and of itself a member of the Roman genre of satire, it is an important player in the genre's development"--

Author : William Ellery Leonard,Stanley Barney Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-08
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
ISBN : 0299003647

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De Rerum Natura by William Ellery Leonard,Stanley Barney Smith Pdf

Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this monumental work. It features an introduction to Lucretius's life and work by William Ellery Leonard, an introduction to and commentary on the poem by Stanley Barney Smith, the complete Latin text with detailed annotations, and an index of ancient sources. --University of Wisconsin Press.

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UCAL:$B267171

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T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura by Titus Lucretius Carus Pdf

Author : David Butterfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037458

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The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura by David Butterfield Pdf

This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.

Author : Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108421966

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Approaches to Lucretius by Donncha O'Rourke Pdf

Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.

Author : Francesco Montarese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110218817

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Lucretius and His Sources by Francesco Montarese Pdf

This study is an original contribution to the discussion of Lucretius’ use of sources and his relationship to Epicurus; furthermore, it provides a new edition of fragments of books 14 and 15 of Epicurus’ On Nature. It focuses on understanding how Lucretius’ sources presented the Presocratics and assesses his literary achievement on that basis.This book will interest anyone studying the way in which Lucretius, and more generally Roman authors, adapted Greek literature and philosophy as well as those with an interest in Hellenistic philosophy and in the reconstruction of Epicurus’ treatise On Nature in particular.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004085122

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De Rerum Natura by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Atomic theory
ISBN : 0191819360

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Lucretius on Atomic Motion by Don Fowler Pdf

This is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De Rerum Natura.

Author : Gerard Passannante
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226648491

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The Lucretian Renaissance by Gerard Passannante Pdf

With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this strain of ancient Greek philosophy survived and was transmitted to the Renaissance primarily by means of a poem that had seemingly been lost—a poem insisting that the letters of the alphabet are like the atoms that make up the universe. By tracing this elemental analogy through the fortunes of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, Passannante argues that, long before it took on its familiar shape during the Scientific Revolution, the philosophy of atoms and the void reemerged in the Renaissance as a story about reading and letters—a story that materialized in texts, in their physical recomposition, and in their scattering. From the works of Virgil and Macrobius to those of Petrarch, Poliziano, Lambin, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Gassendi, Henry More, and Newton, The Lucretian Renaissance recovers a forgotten history of materialism in humanist thought and scholarly practice and asks us to reconsider one of the most enduring questions of the period: what does it mean for a text, a poem, and philosophy to be “reborn”?

Author : David Norbrook,S. J. Harrison,Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Classical Presences
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198713845

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Lucretius and the Early Modern by David Norbrook,S. J. Harrison,Philip R. Hardie Pdf

"This book originated in a conference on 'Lucretius and the Early Modern', 16 May 2012, one of a series of conferences held by Oxford's Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS) ... co-sponsored by the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity"--Acknowledgements.