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Virgil on the Nature of Things

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139428470
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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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.

Virgil on the Nature of Things

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521781114
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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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 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particularly Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things"). It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole, as a confrontation between the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing world views of his predecessors.

Virgil's Experience

Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019158455X
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Virgil's Experience written by Richard Jenkyns and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves.

On The Nature of Things

Author : Lucretius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471788390
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book On The Nature of Things written by Lucretius and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On The Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced subversive ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world.

Hello, Universe

Author : Erin Entrada Kelly
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062414178
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Hello, Universe written by Erin Entrada Kelly and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Newbery Medal “A charming, intriguingly plotted novel.”—Washington Post Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly’s Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships. Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani (hero). “Readers will be instantly engrossed in this relatable neighborhood adventure and its eclectic cast of misfits.”—Booklist In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so he can concentrate on basketball. They aren’t friends, at least not until Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well. This disaster leads Kaori, Gen, and Valencia on an epic quest to find missing Virgil. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place, and friendship blooms. The acclaimed and award-winning author of Blackbird Fly and The Land of Forgotten Girls writes with an authentic, humorous, and irresistible tween voice that will appeal to fans of Thanhha Lai and Rita Williams-Garcia. “Readers across the board will flock to this book that has something for nearly everyone—humor, bullying, self-acceptance, cross-generational relationships, and a smartly fateful ending.”—School Library Journal

On the Nature of Things

Author : Lucretius
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393341364
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book On the Nature of Things written by Lucretius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature ... Based on the tenets of Epicurean philosophy, On the Nature of Things asserts that matter is composed of an infinite number of small particles; that even the soul, like the body, is made up of these atoms and dissolves painlessly after death; that there is no afterlife and therefore no cause for fear; and that the universe operates without the aid or attention of gods."--Page 4 of cover.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498852
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virgil written by Charles Martindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

The Lucretian Renaissance

Author : Gerard Passannante
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226648494
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Lucretian Renaissance written by Gerard Passannante and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this strain of ancient Greek philosophy survived and was transmitted to the Renaissance primarily by means of a poem that had seemingly been lost—a poem insisting that the letters of the alphabet are like the atoms that make up the universe. By tracing this elemental analogy through the fortunes of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, Passannante argues that, long before it took on its familiar shape during the Scientific Revolution, the philosophy of atoms and the void reemerged in the Renaissance as a story about reading and letters—a story that materialized in texts, in their physical recomposition, and in their scattering. From the works of Virgil and Macrobius to those of Petrarch, Poliziano, Lambin, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Gassendi, Henry More, and Newton, The Lucretian Renaissance recovers a forgotten history of materialism in humanist thought and scholarly practice and asks us to reconsider one of the most enduring questions of the period: what does it mean for a text, a poem, and philosophy to be “reborn”?

De Rerum Natura IV

Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Classical Texts
ISBN 13 : 0856683086
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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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.

Virgil & Lucretius

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Virgil & Lucretius written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

AEneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book AEneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Of the Nature of Things

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1714 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lucretius On the Nature of Things

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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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:

Oxford Readings in Lucretius

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191531987
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Readings in Lucretius written by Monica R. Gale and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus. The articles collected in this volume explore Lucretius' poetic and argumentative technique from a variety of perspectives, and also consider the poem in relation to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and ideology of contemporary Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated.

The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil

Author : W. Y. Sellar
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil written by W. Y. Sellar and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil" by W. Y. Sellar. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

On the Nature of Things

Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

Author : Stuart Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827529
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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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 612 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.