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Author | : Gordon Lindsay Campbell |
Publisher | : Oxford Classical Monographs |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199263967 |
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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.
Author | : A. P. Sinker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107621186 |
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This book provides an overview of Lucretius' philosophical poem 'De rerum natura' intended to clarify the poem's overarching themes to a first-time reader. It also gives a brief running commentary on the individual books as well as more detailed notes on selected passages, which are reproduced in the original Latin.
Author | : Donncha O'Rourke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-07-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1108421962 |
Download Approaches to Lucretius Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Author | : William Ellery Leonard |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 2008-08-08 |
Genre | : Didactic poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : 9780299003647 |
Download De Rerum Natura Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this monumental work. It features an introduction to Lucretius's life and work by William Ellery Leonard, an introduction to and commentary on the poem by Stanley Barney Smith, the complete Latin text with detailed annotations, and an index of ancient sources. --University of Wisconsin Press.
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Philip R. Hardie |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2020-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110673517 |
Download Lucretius Poet and Philosopher Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to modern times. This volume offers a multidisciplinary and updated overview of Lucretius as philosopher and as poet, with special attention to how these two aspects interact. The volume includes 18 contributions by established as well as early career scholars working on Lucretius’ philosophical and poetic work, and his reception both in ancient and early modern times. All the chapters present new and original research. Section I explores core issues of Epicurean-Lucretian epistemology and ethics. Section II expounds much new material on ancient response to and reception of Lucretius. Section III presents new material and analysis on the immediate, fraught early modern reception of the poem. Section IV offers a wide collection of new and original papers on Lucretius’ fortunes in the period from Machiavelli up to Victorian times. Section V explores little known aspects of the iconographical and biographical motifs related to the De rerum natura.
Author | : Stuart Gillespie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2007-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139827529 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Barnaby Taylor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198754906 |
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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.
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Epicureans (Greek philosophy) |
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