Lucrece Et Les Sciences De La Vie

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Lucrèce et les sciences de la vie

Author : Schrijvers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004351442
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Lucrèce et les sciences de la vie written by Schrijvers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of 11 studies on the philosophical and scientific background of Lucretius' De rerum natura. The studies 1-7 form a running commentary on the history of ideas in Drn. 5.780-1160 (Lucretius' famous description of the History of Human Mankind); 8-10 discuss some topics from book 4 (sleep, dreams, optical illusions) in relationship to other philosophical doctrines and ancient medical thought; the last study (11) treats the use of analogy by Lucretius.

Lucretius on Creation and Evolution

Author : Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780199263967
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius on Creation and Evolution written by Gordon Lindsay Campbell and published by Oxford Classical Monographs. This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Approaches to Lucretius

Author : Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108386458
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Lucretius written by Donncha O'Rourke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired – and condemned – for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of classicists and philosophers to take stock of a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text's strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, the 'atomology' that posits a correlation of the letters of the poem with the atoms of the universe, the literary and philosophical intertexts that mediate the poem, and the political and ideological questions that it raises. Thirteen essays take up a variety of positions within these traditions of interpretation, innovating within them and advancing beyond them in new directions.

Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science

Author : Daryn Lehoux
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191650803
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science written by Daryn Lehoux and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Lucretius

Author : Claudia Schindler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004539042
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius written by Claudia Schindler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to Lucretius’ De rerum natura, the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem, and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.

Blood, Sweat and Tears

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229205
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Blood, Sweat and Tears written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of anatomy has been the subject of much recent scholarship. This volume shifts the focus to the many different ways in which the function of the body and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought. Contributors demonstrate how different academic disciplines can contribute to our understanding of ‘physiology’, and investigate the value of this category to pre-modern medicine. The book contains individual essays on the wider issues raised by ‘physiology’, and detailed case studies that explore particular aspects and individuals. It will be useful to those working on medicine and the body in pre-modern cultures, in disciplines including classics, history of medicine and science, philosophy, and literature. Contributors include Barbara Baert, Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Véronique Boudon-Millot, Rainer Brömer, Elizabeth Craik, Tamás Demeter, Valeria Gavrylenko, Hans L. Haak, Mieneke te Hennepe, Sabine Kalff, Rina Knoeff, Sergius Kodera, Liesbet Kusters, Karine van ‘t Land, Tomas Macsotay, Michael McVaugh, Vivian Nutton, Barbara Orland, Jacomien Prins, Julius Rocca, Catrien Santing, Daniel Schäfer, Emma Sidgwick, Frank W. Stahnisch, Diana Stanciu, Michael Stolberg, Liba Taub, Fabio Tutrone, Katrien Vanagt, and Marion A. Wells.

Empedocles Redivivus

Author : Myrto Garani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135859833
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Empedocles Redivivus written by Myrto Garani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a thorough study of Lucretius’ poetic and philosophical debt to Empedocles, focusing on their respective uses of analogy and examining how both poets turn these poetic techniques to use in their epistemological approaches to nature.

The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World

Author : Paul Turquand Keyser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199734143
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World written by Paul Turquand Keyser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, 'The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World' offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. 0The Handbook comprises five sections, each with a specific focus on ancient science and medicine. The Handbook provides through each of its approximately four dozen essays, a synthesis and synopsis of the concepts and models of the various ancient natural sciences, covering the early Greek era through the fall of the Roman Republic, including essays that explore topics such as music theory, ancient philosophers, astrology, and alchemy.

Reason and Necessity

Author : M. R. Wright
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1914535154
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Reason and Necessity written by M. R. Wright and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.

A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura

Author : Don Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199243587
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura written by Don Fowler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish

Author : Tristan Schmidt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110576910
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish written by Tristan Schmidt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to the topic of the human evaluation and interpretation of animals in ancient and medieval cultures. From a transcultural perspective contributions from Assyriology, Byzantine Studies, Classical Archaeology, Egyptology, German Medieval Studies and Jewish History look into the processes and mechanisms behind the transfer by people of certain values to animals, and the functions these animal-signs have within written, pictorial and performative forms of expression.

Ennius Noster

Author : Jason S. Nethercut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197517714
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Ennius Noster written by Jason S. Nethercut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However, some hold that Lucretius disagreed with Ennius' quasi-Pythagorean claim to be Homer reborn, and so uniquely qualified to adapt Homeric poetry to the Latin language. Likewise, received wisdom holds that Lucretius followed in the path of poets writing in the wake of Ennius' Annales, most of whom employed an Ennian style. However, throughout the De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' use of Ennius' Annales as a formal model for a long discursive poem in epic meter was neither inevitable nor predictable, on the one hand, nor meaningful in the simple way that critical consensus has always maintained. Jason Nethercut posits that Lucretius selected Ennius as a model precisely to dismantle the values for which he claimed Ennius stood, including the importance of history as a poetic subject and Rome's historical achievement in particular. As the first book to offer substantial analysis of the relationship between two of the ancient world's most impactful poets, Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales fills an important gap not only in Lucretian scholarship, but also in our understanding of Latin literary history.

Being Alone in Antiquity

Author : Rafał Matuszewski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110758075
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Being Alone in Antiquity written by Rafał Matuszewski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.

Lucretius on Disease

Author : George Kazantzidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110722763
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius on Disease written by George Kazantzidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Lucretius and His Sources

Author : Francesco Montarese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311021881X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius and His Sources written by Francesco Montarese and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses Lucretius’ refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920. Chapter 1 argues that in DRN I 635-920 Lucretius was following an Epicurean source, which in turn depended on Theophrastean doxography. Chapter 2 shows that books 14 and 15 of Epicurus’ On Nature were not Lucretius’ source-text. Chapter 3 discusses how lines 635-920 fit in the structure of book 1 and whether Lucretius’ source is more likely to have been Epicurus himself or a neo-Epicurean. Chapter 4 focuses on Lucretius’ own additions to the material he derived from his sources and on his poetical and rhetorical contributions, which were extensive. Lucretius shows an understanding of philosophical points by adapting his poetical devices to the philosophical arguments. Chapter 4 also argues that Lucretius anticipates philosophical points in what have often been regarded as the ‘purple passages’ of his poem - e.g. the invocation of Venus in the proem, and the description of Sicily and Aetna - so that he could take them up later on in his narrative and provide an adequate explanation of reality.

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher

Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110673517
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius Poet and Philosopher written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Lucretius and the Early Modern

Author : David Norbrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198713843
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius and the Early Modern written by David Norbrook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. It has been hailed in Stephen Greenblatt's best-selling book, The Swerve, as the poem that invented modernity. But how modern did early modern readers want to become? This collection of essays offers a series of case studies which demonstrate the sophisticated ways in which some readers might relate the poem to received ideas, assimilating Lucretius to theories of natural law and even natural theology, while others were at once attracted to Lucretius' subversiveness and driven to dissociate themselves from him. The volume presents a wide geographical range, from Florence and Venice to France, England, and Germany, and extends chronologically from Lucretius' contemporary audience to the European Enlightenment. It covers both major authors such as Montaigne and neglected figures such as Italian neo-Latin poets, and is the first book in the field to pay close attention to Lucretius' impact on political thought, both in philosophy - from Machiavelli, through Hobbes, to Rousseau - and in the topical spin put on the De rerum natura by translators in revolutionary England. It combines careful attention to material contexts of book production and distribution with close readings of particular interpretations and translations, to present a rich and nuanced profile of the mark made by a remarkable poem.