Lucretius Poet Philosopher

Author : Philip R. Hardie,Valentina Prosperi,Diego Zucca
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110673517

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Lucretius Poet and Philosopher by Philip R. Hardie,Valentina Prosperi,Diego Zucca Pdf

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.

Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9783986777951

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Of the Nature of Things by Lucretius Pdf

Of the Nature of Things Lucretius - Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness. He bases this on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, and continues with an examination of sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology, all of these subjects made more attractive by the poetry with which he illustrates them.very little is known about the Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus. His birth and death dates are based off of cross-referencing works that mention him, and pieces of evidence derived from his writing, and are believed to be circa 99 BC54 BC. On the Nature of Things is Lucretiuss only known work. The goal of the text is to explain Epicurean philosophy to the Roman people. It is addressed to Gaius Memmius, a praetor and patron of Lucretius. Presented in this work is an argument for atomism, the assertion that it is not the Gods that are responsible for the happenings of the world, but rather atoms and voids. Lucretius also argues that death is simply the dissipation of the human mind, and that it is not something we should fear. On the Nature of Things is a detailed articulation of ancient thought-provoking debates which are still relevant today. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, follows the verse translation of William Ellery Leonard, and includes an introduction by Cyril Bailey.

Author : E. E. Sikes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107497658

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Lucretius by E. E. Sikes Pdf

Originally published in 1936, this book examines Lucretius and his philosophy by treating him as a poet first and foremost. Sikes gives a background to the Epicurean philosophy with which Lucretius is most strongly associated in order to illustrate the setting of Lucretius' poetry, and uses mostly blank verse in his translations from 'De Rerum Natura', compensating in an appendix where he translates three English poems into Latin hexameter. This book will be of value to anyone interested in Lucretius' life and works.

Author : Daryn Lehoux,A. D. Morrison,Alison Sharrock
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191650802

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Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science by Daryn Lehoux,A. D. Morrison,Alison Sharrock Pdf

Lucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by false beliefs about the gods, and a detailed exposition of Epicurean atomist physics. For centuries, it has raised the question of whether it is primarily a poem or primarily a philosophical treatise, which also presents scientific doctrine. The current volume seeks to unite the three disciplinary aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - in order to offer a holistic response to an important monument in cultural history. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers, but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds. Philosophers and scholars of ancient science look closely at the artistic placement of individual words, while literary critics explore ethical matters and the contribution of Lucretius' poetry to the argument of the poem. Topics covered include death and grief, evolution and the cosmos, ethics and politics, perception, and epistemology.

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005055405

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On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus Pdf

Author : Philip R. Hardie,Valentina Prosperi,Diego Zucca
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110673479

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Lucretius Poet and Philosopher by Philip R. Hardie,Valentina Prosperi,Diego Zucca Pdf

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.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781435142237

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Three Philosophical Poets by George Santayana Pdf

“I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar….My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has for writing about the spring. They have attracted me; they have moved me to reflection; they have revealed to me certain aspects of nature and of philosophy which I am prompted by mere sincerity to express, if anybody seems interested or willing to listen.” The modesty exhibited in the above disclaimer—from Santayana’s preface to Three Philosophical Poets—should be viewed in the context of the author’s extraordinary impact as a philosopher and teacher. The Sense of Beauty has claim to being the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States; the multivolume The Life of Reason is arguably the first extended analysis of pragmatism anywhere. Among Santayana’s many well-known Harvard students, Wallace Stevens has acknowledged a clear debt to his work. Based on a course Santayana taught at Harvard, Three Philosophical Poets was first delivered to the public as a series of lectures at Columbia University in 1910. Santayana’s lifelong, learned meditation on the relationship between philosophy and art is apparent. (Santayana’s own prose style has long been considered among the most eloquent in all of philosophy.) Here, he discusses the chief phases of European philosophy—naturalism, supernaturalism, and romanticism—as they are set forth and epitomized by the works of Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, respectively. Praise for Three Philosophical Poets and its author “[A] brilliant and admirable little book.” —T. S. Eliot “The exquisite and memorable way in which he has always said things has given so much delight that we accept what he says as we accept our own civilization. His pages are part of the douceur de vivre.” —Wallace Stevens “Santayana was the real excitement for me at Harvard, especially Three PhilosophicalPoets….It really fixed my view of what poetry should ultimately be.” —Conrad Aiken

Author : D. N. Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521542146

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Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom by D. N. Sedley Pdf

This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius. By showing how he worked from the literary model set by the Greek poet Empedocles but under the philosophical inspiration of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, the book seeks to characterise Lucretius' unique poetic achivement. It is addressed to those interested both in Latin poetry and in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.

Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141915371

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The Nature of Things by Lucretius Pdf

Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness. He bases this on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, and continues with an examination of sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology, all of these subjects made more attractive by the poetry with which he illustrates them.

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781497675667

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The Philosophy of Poetry by Henri Bergson Pdf

This is a partial translation by Wade Baskin of the original French work Ecrits et Paroles (a 3 volume set, 665 pages) published between 1957 and 1959 by Henri Bergson. It includes the translation from Bergson’s introduction to a French ed. of De rerum natura, by Lucretius published in 1884 under the title: Extraits de Lucre`ce.

Author : T. Lucretius Carus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547315872

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Of the Nature of Things by T. Lucretius Carus Pdf

"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 : Charles Segal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400861293

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Lucretius on Death and Anxiety by Charles Segal Pdf

In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521451353

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Myth and Poetry in Lucretius by Monica R. Gale Pdf

This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.

Author : Edward Ernest Sikes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
ISBN : LCCN:lc76139477

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Lucretius, Poet & Philosopher by Edward Ernest Sikes Pdf

Author : Lucretius
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511865598

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On the Nature of Things by Lucretius Pdf

"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant." On The Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) 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 subversive ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world.