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Author : Jane McIntosh Snyder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789060321249
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura written by Jane McIntosh Snyder and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0856686948
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book De Rerum Natura III written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Scheme of Epicurus written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher : Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
ISBN 13 : 0856683094
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Lucretius De Rerum Natura IV written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. This book was released on 1986 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book IV of Lucretius' great philosophical poem deals mainly with the psychology of sensation and thought. The heart of this book is a new text, incorporating the latest scholarship on the text of Lucretius, with a clear prose facing translation. The commentary concentrates on the thought of the text (relating it to other philosophers beside Epicurus) and the poetry of the Latin, placing the text in relation to Roman literature in general, and attempting to demonstrate the poetic genius of Lucretius. The introduction deals with the didactic tradition in ancient literature and Lucretius' place in it, the structure of De Rerum Natura, the salient features of the philosophy of Epicurus and the transmission of the text.
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Bonnie A. Catto
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865163995
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (651 download)
Download or read book Selections from De Rerum Natura written by Bonnie A. Catto and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- 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 : 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 : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521451352
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Myth and Poetry in Lucretius written by Monica R. Gale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199260346
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Oxford Readings in Lucretius written by Monica R. Gale and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its readers of the validity of the rationalist theories of Epicurus. An Introduction contextualizes the essays, and all Greek and Latin is translated.
Author : Michael Pope
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009242318
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Lucretius and the End of Masculinity written by Michael Pope and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Lucretius presents the male body as ineluctably vulnerable and thereby shows Roman masculinity to be a fiction.
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 : Lucretius
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN 13 : 9781438535524
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Lucretius and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 Bi ca. 55 Be was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem on Epicureanism De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things.
