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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Classical Texts
ISBN 13 : 0856683086
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book De Rerum Natura IV written by Lucretius and published by Classical Texts. This book was released on 1986 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.
Author : Barnaby Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198754906
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Lucretius and the Language of Nature written by Barnaby Taylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things'), written in the middle of the first century BC, made a fundamental and lasting contribution to the language of Latin philosophy. The style of De Rerum Natura is like nothing else in extant Latin: at once archaic and modern, Romanizing and Hellenizing, intimate and sublime, it draws on multiple literary genres and linguistic registers. This book offers a study of Lucretius' linguistic innovation and creativity. Lucretius is depicted as a linguistic trailblazer, extending and augmenting the technical language of Latin in order to describe the Epicurean universe of atoms and void in all its complexity and sublimity. A detailed understanding of the Epicurean linguistic theory brings with it a greater appreciation of Lucretius' own language. Accordingly, this book features an in-depth reconstruction of certain core features of Epicurean linguistic theory. Elements of Lucretius' style discussed include his attitudes to, and use of, figurative language (especially metaphor); his explorations, both explicit and implicit, of Latin etymology; his uses of Greek; and his creative deployment of compounds and prefixed words. His practice is related throughout not only to the underlying Epicurean theory but also to contemporary Roman attitudes to style and language. The result is a new reading of one of the greatest and most difficult works to survive from the Roman world.
Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139428470
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Virgil on the Nature of Things written by Monica R. Gale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and - above all - Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns in the Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgil's poem as an extended meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods and the natural environment.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lucretius On the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141915374
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Things written by Lucretius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Allen Shoaf
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869538
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things written by Richard Allen Shoaf and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare’s works. In chapters on six important plays across the canon (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream), it demonstrates that Shakespeare articulates his erotics of being, his “great creating nature” (The Winter’s Tale), by drawing on imagery he learned from Ovid and other classical poets, but especially from Lucretius, in his powerful epic that celebrates Venus and her endless creativity. Responding to Lucretius’s widely admired Latinity in his exposition of the life of man in nature, Shakespeare emerges as an early modern materialist who writes poetry that is effectively “atomic,” marked (as we might say today) by fission (hendiadys, for example) and fusion (synoeciosis, for example), joining and splitting, splitting and joining language and character as no other poet has ever done – To give away yourself keeps yourself still; My grave is like to be my wedding bed; I begin/To doubt the equivocation of the fiend/That lies like truth. Readers of Shoaf’s book will encounter anew, through both fresh evidence and close reading, Shakespeare’s universally acknowledged commitment to the art of nature and the nature of art. With Lucretius’s poetry as inspiration, Shakespeare becomes the poet of the material, both in art and in nature, immensely creative with his dædala lingua like dædala natura – his wonder-crafting tongue like wonder-working nature.
Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141965355
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Sensation and Sex written by Lucretius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant, insightful and startlingly modern, the philosophy of Lucretius deeply influenced the course of European thought; here, he provides one of the first accounts of atomic theory, argues that there can be no life of the soul after death, and explores the sickness that we call love.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book On the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625581556
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Way Things Are written by Lucretius and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De rerum natura (The Way Things Are) is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. 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 : Lucretius
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162327X
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book On the Nature of the Universe written by Lucretius and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour Lucretius 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 not by the gods, but by the mechanical laws of nature. By believing this, men can live in peace of mind and happiness. Lucretius bases his argument on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus. His poem explores sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology through acute observation of the beauties of the natural world and with moving sympathy for man's place in it. Sir Ronald Melville's accessible and accurate verse translation is complemented by an introduction and notes situating Lucretius' scientific theories within the thought of 1st century BCE Rome and discussing the Epicurean philosophy that was his inspiration and why the issues Lucretius' poem raisies about the scientific and poetical views of the world continue to be important. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Lucretius on the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139827522
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius written by Stuart Gillespie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, philosophy and science discuss the poem in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary text and as a vehicle for progressive ideas. The Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Lucretius, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of classical antiquity and its reception. It is completely accessible to the reader who has only read Lucretius in translation.
Author : Calvin Trillin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394741727
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)
Download or read book American Fried written by Calvin Trillin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1979 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVEL-DOMESTIC
Author : William Ellery Leonard
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299003647
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book De Rerum Natura written by William Ellery Leonard and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Nature of Things (Illustrated) written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
