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Author : Lucretius,Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Classical Texts
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780856683084
With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus,Algernon Paul Sinker
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0199263965
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 : William Ellery Leonard,Stanley Barney Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-08
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
ISBN : 0299003647
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 : Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199243581
'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
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780856686948
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 : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472131808
"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 : T. Lucretius Carus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547315872
"Of the Nature of Things" is a first-century BCE didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. In this work, T. Lucretius Carus presents the view that the world can be described by the function of material forces and natural laws. So, one should not fear the gods or death.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0856684996
The purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion of the ...
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UCAL:$B267171
Author : George Kazantzidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110722765
The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with. However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem’s philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product. The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning—both inside and outside the text.
Author : Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108421966
Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Author : David Butterfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037458
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 : Lucretius
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393341737
Reissued to accompany Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: the epic poem that changed the course of human thought forever. This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world.
Author : Philip R. Hardie,Valentina Prosperi,Diego Zucca
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110673517
Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to modern times. This volume offers a multidisciplinary and updated overview of Lucretius as philosopher and as poet, with special attention to how these two aspects interact. The volume includes 18 contributions by established as well as early career scholars working on Lucretius’ philosophical and poetic work, and his reception both in ancient and early modern times. All the chapters present new and original research. Section I explores core issues of Epicurean-Lucretian epistemology and ethics. Section II expounds much new material on ancient response to and reception of Lucretius. Section III presents new material and analysis on the immediate, fraught early modern reception of the poem. Section IV offers a wide collection of new and original papers on Lucretius’ fortunes in the period from Machiavelli up to Victorian times. Section V explores little known aspects of the iconographical and biographical motifs related to the De rerum natura.
