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Author : Bonnie A. Catto
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1610411781
Author : T. Lucretius Carus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Lucretius,Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Classical Texts
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780856683084
With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.
Author : Bonnie A. Catto
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780865163997
-- A brief biography of Lucretius -- History of materialist theory of the universe -- Detailed discussion of Lucretian originality and style -- Section on meter -- Bibliography The text includes 53 passages (1291 lines total) spanning the entire
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 025320125X
Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000062588
On the Nature of Things is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC). The poem explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.
Author : Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : William Ellery Leonard,Stanley Barney Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : T.H.M. Gellar-Goad
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:432554258
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89104366893
Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1482789612
A 1st-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through richly poetic language and metaphors. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance," and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034907330
Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and he died in the year 55. Writing in the waning days of the Roman Republic - as Rome's politics grew individualistic and treacherous, its high-life wanton, its piety introspective and morbid - Lucretius sets forth a rational and materialistic view of the world which offers a retreat into a quiet community of wisdom and friendship. Even to modern readers, the sweep of Lucretius's observations is remarkable. A careful observer of nature, he writes with an innocent curiosity into how things are put together - from the oceans, lands, and stars to a mound of poppy seeds, from the "applause" of a rooster's wings to the human mind and soul. Yet Lucretius is no romantic. Nature is what it is - fascinating, purposeless, beautiful, deadly. Once we understand this, we free ourselves of superstitious fears, becoming as human and as godlike as we can be. The poem, then, is about the universe and how human beings ought to live in it. Epicurean physics and morality converge.