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Approaches to Lucretius
Author | : Donncha O'Rourke |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-07-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781108421966 |
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Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura
Author | : Don Fowler |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199243581 |
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'In Lucretius on Atomic Motion Don Fowler produces a commentary of Lucretius like no other. His commentary achieves the status of a meta-commentary... what makes this commentary claim our attention is the range of texts, both poetic and philosophical, ancient and modern, that Fowler brings to bear in revealing the deep background --and the later fortune - of Lucretius' poem.' -Diskin Clay, Times Literary SupplementThis is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura. The late Don Fowler sets new standards for Lucretian studies in his awesome command both of the ancient literary, philological, and philosophical background to this Latin Epicurean poem, and of the relevant modern scholarship.
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution
Author | : Gordon Lindsay Campbell |
Publsiher | : Oxford Classical Monographs |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199263965 |
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Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It gives an anti-teleological mechanistic theory of zoogony and the origin of species that does away with the need for any divine aidor design in the process, and accordingly it has been seen as a forerunner of Darwin's theory of evolution. This commentary locates Lucretius in both the ancient and modern contexts, and treats Lucretius' ideas as very much alive rather than as historical concepts. The recent revival of creationismmakes this study particularly relevant to contemporary debate, and indeed, many of the central questions posed by creationists are those Lucretius attempts to answer.
Empedocles Redivivus
Author | : Myrto Garani |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135859831 |
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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.
De Rerum Natura IV
Author | : Lucretius,Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publsiher | : Classical Texts |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780856683084 |
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With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.
Lucretius and the Language of Nature
Author | : Barnaby Taylor |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198754909 |
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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.
The Early Textual History of Lucretius De Rerum Natura
Author | : David Butterfield |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107037458 |
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This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
Author | : Ada Palmer |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674967083 |
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Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.