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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 : 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 : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book De Rerum Natura . the Roman Poet of Science, Lucretius : de Rerum Natura written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Lucretius Carus
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by T. Lucretius Carus and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of the Nature of Things" is a first-century BCE didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. In this work, T. Lucretius Carus presents the view that the world can be described by the function of material forces and natural laws. So, one should not fear the gods or death.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book (T. Lucreti Cari) De rerum natura, liber primus written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie Ann Frampton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190915420
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Empire of Letters written by Stephanie Ann Frampton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding new light on the history of the book in antiquity, Empire of Letters tells the story of writing at Rome at the pivotal moment of transition from Republic to Empire (c. 55 BCE-15 CE). By uniting close readings of the period's major authors with detailed analysis of material texts, it argues that the physical embodiments of writing were essential to the worldviews and self-fashioning of authors whose works took shape in them. Whether in wooden tablets, papyrus bookrolls, monumental writing in stone and bronze, or through the alphabet itself, Roman authors both idealized and competed with writing's textual forms. The academic study of the history of the book has arisen largely out of the textual abundance of the age of print, focusing on the Renaissance and after. But fewer than fifty fragments of classical Roman bookrolls survive, and even fewer lines of poetry. Understanding the history of the ancient Roman book requires us to think differently about this evidence, placing it into the context of other kinds of textual forms that survive in greater numbers, from the fragments of Greek papyri preserved in the garbage heaps of Egypt to the Latin graffiti still visible on the walls of the cities destroyed by Vesuvius. By attending carefully to this kind of material in conjunction with the rich literary testimony of the period, Empire of Letters exposes the importance of textuality itself to Roman authors, and puts the written word back at the center of Roman literature.
Author : Claudia Schindler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004539042
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
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.
Author : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111340945
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Labor Imperfectus written by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception and interpretation, and how does it still influence them today? Also, how do various editorial arrangements of fragmentary texts influence the reconstruction of closure? These important questions offer the opportunity to bring together specialists working on Greek and Roman texts across various genres: epic, tragedy, poetry, mythographic texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical treatises, and the novel. Reading a text by focusing on its current unfinishedness or incompleteness, or the textual signs suggesting an unfinished or incomplete state, the contributors examine the relations between author, reader and text as underscored by the verbal, generic and aesthetic features of each work. This edited volume brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ancient and modern texts and aims to reach out to a broad scholarly community consisting not only of Classicists but also scholars of other literature and aesthetics.
Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher :
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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:
