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Author : Katharine Harelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Metaphor in Books One and Three of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura written by Katharine Harelson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myrto Garani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135859833
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
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.
Author : John E Ziolkowski
Publisher : Eliva Press
ISBN 13 : 9789994987627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Similes in Lucretius and Vergil written by John E Ziolkowski and published by Eliva Press. This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After analyzing the similes in Plato's Dialogues and Homer's poems I have worked on similes in the Bible, Lucretius and Vergil. This study will concentrate on the latter two authors, beginning with a discussion of terms: simile, analogy, and figurative versus literal comparisons. I will follow a definition of simile as "a figurative comparison in which both tenor and vehicle are expressed (with or without a prothesis)" in contrast to a metaphor, which is "an implied comparison in which only the vehicle is stated." This differs slightly from the traditional definition going back to Aristotle (Rhetoric Book 3.4.1-4 [1406b- 1407]), who famously distinguished the two figures by citing an example from the Iliad (e.g., 20.164) where Achilles [tenor] 'rose up like a lion [vehicle]' (hôrto leôn hôs). If Homer had said simply "he rose up, a lion" that would be a metaphor since no word is included to indicate the shift in meaning (metaphora) of the word 'lion' from its literal to a more symbolic sense. The purpose of this study is to provide translations of all the similes in the six books of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and in Vergil's poems. Three tables and ten appendices reveal various aspects of the poems (like factual comparisons, alliteration and duplicate passages). This has never been done so thoroughly and with such a clear distinction between similes and metaphors.The tables clarify the distribution of the similes in both authors; the conclusion summarizes the numbers, subject matter and the reasons for similes in Latin writers. Thus a thorough examination of this topic will help the reader gain a greater appreciation of the use of simles in Roman authors.
Author : Daniel Markovic
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433661
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura written by Daniel Markovic and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alleged incompatibility of Epicurus’ philosophy with rhetoric has led modern scholars to isolate rhetorical procedures in Lucretius’ De rerum natura and regard them as non-Epicurean, accessory features. This study of Lucretius’ rhetorical procedures is based on a wider understanding of the term rhetoric, not limited to the genre of oratory. In a fresh discussion of the questions of provenance and the role of the most important formal procedures of exposition in De rerum natura the author argues that instead of injecting rhetorical strategies from non-Epicurean sources, Lucretius in fact intensified rhetorical elements already present in the work of Epicurus. These elements are used for the purpose of explanation, and function as cognitive and mnemonic aids for the reader.
Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861292
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Lucretius on Death and Anxiety written by Charles Segal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry M. Seiden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429907265
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Motive for Metaphor written by Henry M. Seiden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a small anthology: each chapter a kind of meditation-on poetry and psychoanalysis; on a poem, sometimes two; on poetry in general; on thought itself. The poems are beautiful, some are contemporary, some are classical and well worth a reader's attention. "The motive for metaphor" is the title of a short poem of Wallace Stevens in which he says he is "happy" with the subtleties of experience. He likes what he calls the "half colours of quarter things," as opposed to the certainties, the hard primary "reds" and "blues." To grasp and make sense of what is elusive (and beautiful), that is, for the essential and puzzling condition of poetry, we are obliged to make metaphors. The same is perhaps true of psychoanalysis-this is the essential argument of the book. The chapters were originally poetry columns that the author wrote for Psychologist-Psychoanalyst and Division/Review (both journals of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association).
Author : Phillip Mitsis
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199744211
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism written by Phillip Mitsis and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2020 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of the philosophy of Epicurus (340-271 BCE) and then traces Epicurean influences throughout the Western tradition. It is an unmatched resource for those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicureanism's powerful arguments about death, happiness, and the nature of the material world.
Author : Michael Hanne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108397271
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Narrative and Metaphor in the Law written by Michael Hanne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognized that court trials, both criminal and civil, in the common law system, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. Interest in the part played by metaphor in the law, including metaphors for the law, and for many standard concepts in legal practice, has also been strong, though research under the metaphor banner has been much more fragmentary. In this book, for the first time, a distinguished group of legal scholars, collaborating with specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, criminology, and legal activism, explore how narrative and metaphor are both vital to the legal process. Together, they examine topics including concepts of law, legal persuasion, human rights law, gender in the law, innovations in legal thinking, legal activism, creative work around the law, and public debate around crime and punishment.
Author : Lee Fratantuono
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498511554
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura written by Lee Fratantuono and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucretius’ philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the universe and, in particular, the world of nature and creation in which humanity finds its abode. This earliest surviving full scale epic poem from ancient Rome was of immense influence and significance to the development of the Latin epic tradition, and continues to challenge and haunt its readers to the present day. A Reading of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura offers a comprehensive commentary on this great work of Roman poetry and philosophy. Lee Fratantuono reveals Lucretius to be a poet with deep and abiding interest in the nature of the Roman identity as the children of both Venus (through Aeneas) and Mars (through Romulus); the consequences (both positive and negative) of descent from the immortal powers of love and war are explored in vivid epic narrative, as the poet progresses from his invocation to the mother of the children of Aeneas through to the burning funeral pyres of the plague at Athens. Lucretius’ epic offers the possibility of serenity and peaceful reflection on the mysteries of the nature of the world, even as it shatters any hope of immortality through its bleak vision of post mortem oblivion. And in the process of defining what it means both to be human and Roman, Lucretius offers a horrifying vision of the perils of excessive devotion both to the gods and our fellow men, a commentary on the nature of pietas that would serve as a warning for Virgil in his later depiction of the Trojan Aeneas.
Author : Katharina Volk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199245505
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Latin Didactic written by Katharina Volk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a theoretical look at Latin didactic poems. It discusses the characteristics that make a poem didactic from the points of view of both theory and literary history, and traces the genre's history, from Hesiod to Roman times.
Author : Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421962
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
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: Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002117
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book III written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius' account of why death does not matter.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253201256
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Lucretius: The Way Things Are written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1968-01-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.
Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131606056X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III written by Lucretius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it had done before its birth. Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state of ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based. To present this case Lucretius deploys the full range of poetic and rhetorical registers, soberly prohibitive, artfully decorative or passionately emotive as best suits his argument, reinforcing it with vivid and compelling imagery. This new edition has been completely revised, with a considerably enlarged Commentary and a new supplementary introduction taking account of the great amount of new scholarship of the last forty years.
Author : Titus Carus Lucretius
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN 13 : 0856688843
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book De Rerum Natura written by Titus Carus Lucretius and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2009 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance. This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which begins by putting a strong case against what it has recently become fashionable to call 'intelligent design', and ends with an account of human evolution and the development of society in which the limitations of technological progress form a strong and occasionally explicit subtext. Along the way, the poet touches on many themes which may strike a chord with the twenty-first century reader: the fragility of our ecosystem, the corruption of political life, the futility of consumerism and the desirability of limiting our acquisitive instincts are all highly topical issues for us, as for the poem's original audience. Book V also offers a fascinating introduction to the world-view of the upper-class Roman of the first century BC. This edition (which complements existing Aris and Phillips commentaries on books 3, 4 and 6) will help to make Lucretius' urgent and impassioned argument, and something of his remarkable poetic style, accessible to a wider audience, including those with little or no knowledge of Latin. Both the translation and commentary aim to explain the scientific argument of the book as clearly as possible; and to convey at least some impression of the poetic texture of Lucretius' Latin.
Author : Jenny Strauss Clay
Publisher : Mnemosyne, Supplements
ISBN 13 : 9789004373488
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (734 download)
Download or read book Teaching Through Images written by Jenny Strauss Clay and published by Mnemosyne, Supplements. This book was released on 2022 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning"--
Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625581556
Total Pages : 527 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 527 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.
