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Author | : William Ellery Leonard |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 2008-08-08 |
Genre | : Didactic poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : 9780299003647 |
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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 | : Don Fowler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199243587 |
Download A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'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.
Author | : Gordon Lindsay Campbell |
Publisher | : Oxford Classical Monographs |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199263967 |
Download Lucretius on Creation and Evolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Download Introduction to Lucretius Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1995-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download On the Nature of Things Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and he died in the year 55. Writing in the waning days of the Roman Republic - as Rome's politics grew individualistic and treacherous, its high-life wanton, its piety introspective and morbid - Lucretius sets forth a rational and materialistic view of the world which offers a retreat into a quiet community of wisdom and friendship. Even to modern readers, the sweep of Lucretius's observations is remarkable. A careful observer of nature, he writes with an innocent curiosity into how things are put together - from the oceans, lands, and stars to a mound of poppy seeds, from the "applause" of a rooster's wings to the human mind and soul. Yet Lucretius is no romantic. Nature is what it is - fascinating, purposeless, beautiful, deadly. Once we understand this, we free ourselves of superstitious fears, becoming as human and as godlike as we can be. The poem, then, is about the universe and how human beings ought to live in it. Epicurean physics and morality converge.
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0856686948 |
Download De Rerum Natura III Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : 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 | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004085121 |
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Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Kazantzidis |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110722763 |
Download Lucretius on Disease Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with. However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem’s philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product. The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning—both inside and outside the text.