Of the Nature of Things
| Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 1921 |
| Genre | : Cosmology |
| ISBN | : |
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De Rerum Natura IV
| Author | : Lucretius |
| Publisher | : Classical Texts |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0856683086 |
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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 |
| 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.
Virgil on the Nature of Things
| Author | : Monica R. Gale |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2000-11-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139428470 |
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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.
Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things
| Author | : Richard Allen Shoaf |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2014-10-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1443869538 |
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Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare’s works. In chapters on six important plays across the canon (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream), it demonstrates that Shakespeare articulates his erotics of being, his “great creating nature” (The Winter’s Tale), by drawing on imagery he learned from Ovid and other classical poets, but especially from Lucretius, in his powerful epic that celebrates Venus and her endless creativity. Responding to Lucretius’s widely admired Latinity in his exposition of the life of man in nature, Shakespeare emerges as an early modern materialist who writes poetry that is effectively “atomic,” marked (as we might say today) by fission (hendiadys, for example) and fusion (synoeciosis, for example), joining and splitting, splitting and joining language and character as no other poet has ever done – To give away yourself keeps yourself still; My grave is like to be my wedding bed; I begin/To doubt the equivocation of the fiend/That lies like truth. Readers of Shoaf’s book will encounter anew, through both fresh evidence and close reading, Shakespeare’s universally acknowledged commitment to the art of nature and the nature of art. With Lucretius’s poetry as inspiration, Shakespeare becomes the poet of the material, both in art and in nature, immensely creative with his dædala lingua like dædala natura – his wonder-crafting tongue like wonder-working nature.
The Nature of Things
| Author | : Lucretius |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2007-07-26 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141915374 |
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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.
On the Nature of Things
| Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1921 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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On The Nature Of Things (de Rerum Natura) Translated With An Analysis Of The Six Books By H.a.j. Munro
| Author | : Lucretius Carus Titus |
| Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-10-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781016010702 |
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On the Nature of the Universe
| Author | : Lucretius |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 816 |
| Release | : 2008-10-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 019162327X |
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`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour Lucretius 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 not by the gods, but by the mechanical laws of nature. By believing this, men can live in peace of mind and happiness. Lucretius bases his argument on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus. His poem explores sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology through acute observation of the beauties of the natural world and with moving sympathy for man's place in it. Sir Ronald Melville's accessible and accurate verse translation is complemented by an introduction and notes situating Lucretius' scientific theories within the thought of 1st century BCE Rome and discussing the Epicurean philosophy that was his inspiration and why the issues Lucretius' poem raisies about the scientific and poetical views of the world continue to be important. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Lucretius On the Nature of Things
| Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 1893 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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