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Author | : Daniel Markovic |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2008-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047433661 |
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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 | : Daniel Markovic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780542989575 |
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The dissertation examines the question of the importance, provenance, and function of rhetorical techniques in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. The term "rhetoric" is used to refer to the set of traditional formal techniques and procedures which authors use to create their texts and thereby produce certain effects on their audience. This definition includes the most pragmatic notion of rhetoric, namely the capacity to construct plausible arguments.
Author | : Christopher John Reagan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download A Logical and Rhetorical Analysis of the Polemics in Lucretius De Rerum Natura Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Raymond Joseph Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Rhetoric, Ancient |
ISBN | : |
Download The Rhetorical Features in Book One of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Duncan F. Kennedy |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472112883 |
Download Rethinking Reality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A clear, concise introduction to current debates on the relationship of representation and reality in science studies
Author | : Barnaby Taylor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198754906 |
Download Lucretius and the Language of Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Lucretius |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2014-08-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 131606056X |
Download Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Barnaby Taylor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-06-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0191071064 |
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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.