A Reading Of Lucretius De Rerum Natura
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A Reading Of Lucretius De Rerum Natura
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Author : Lee Fratantuono
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-06-03
A Reading Of Lucretius De Rerum Natura written by Lee Fratantuono and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-03 with Philosophy categories.
Lucretius’ philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the universe and, in particular, the world of nature and creation in which humanity finds its abode. This earliest surviving full scale epic poem from ancient Rome was of immense influence and significance to the development of the Latin epic tradition, and continues to challenge and haunt its readers to the present day. A Reading of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura offers a comprehensive commentary on this great work of Roman poetry and philosophy. Lee Fratantuono reveals Lucretius to be a poet with deep and abiding interest in the nature of the Roman identity as the children of both Venus (through Aeneas) and Mars (through Romulus); the consequences (both positive and negative) of descent from the immortal powers of love and war are explored in vivid epic narrative, as the poet progresses from his invocation to the mother of the children of Aeneas through to the burning funeral pyres of the plague at Athens. Lucretius’ epic offers the possibility of serenity and peaceful reflection on the mysteries of the nature of the world, even as it shatters any hope of immortality through its bleak vision of post mortem oblivion. And in the process of defining what it means both to be human and Roman, Lucretius offers a horrifying vision of the perils of excessive devotion both to the gods and our fellow men, a commentary on the nature of pietas that would serve as a warning for Virgil in his later depiction of the Trojan Aeneas.
Approaches To Lucretius
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Author : Donncha O'Rourke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-16
Approaches To Lucretius written by Donncha O'Rourke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Reading Lucretius In The Renaissance
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Author : Ada Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-13
Reading Lucretius In The Renaissance written by Ada Palmer and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with History categories.
After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued powerfully against the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, and a creator God. Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance readers, such as Machiavelli, Pomponio Leto, and Montaigne, actually ingested and disseminated Lucretius, and the ways in which this process of reading transformed modern thought. She uncovers humanist methods for reconciling Christian and pagan philosophy, and shows how ideas of emergent order and natural selection, so critical to our current thinking, became embedded in Europe’s intellectual landscape before the seventeenth century. 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 the ideas that would soon transform the world. Renaissance readers—poets and philologists rather than scientists—were moved by their love of classical literature to rescue Lucretius and his atomism, thereby injecting his theories back into scientific discourse. Palmer employs a new quantitative method for analyzing marginalia in manuscripts and printed books, exposing how changes in scholarly reading practices over the course of the sixteenth century gradually expanded Europe’s receptivity to radical science, setting the stage for the scientific revolution.
Lucretius On Creation And Evolution
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Author : Gordon Lindsay Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs
Release Date : 2003
Lucretius On Creation And Evolution written by Gordon Lindsay Campbell and has been published by Oxford Classical Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
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.
On The Nature Of Things
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Author : Lucretius
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-12-27
On The Nature Of Things written by Lucretius and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-27 with Poetry categories.
Nothing can be created out of nothing. Roman readers were first exposed to the Epicurean school of thought by Lucretius. The 7,400-word poem De Rerum Natura, which is broken up into six untitled books, examines Epicurean physics using a wealth of poetic language and analogies. Lucretius describes several celestial and terrestrial phenomena as well as the atomism theory, the nature of the mind and soul, explanations of sensation and thinking, the development of the world and its manifestations.
Lucretius On Disease
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Author : George Kazantzidis
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-04-19
Lucretius On Disease written by George Kazantzidis and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
De Rerum Natura
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Author : William Ellery Leonard
language : la
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2008-08-08
De Rerum Natura written by William Ellery Leonard and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-08 with Didactic poetry, Latin categories.
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.
Lucretius Poet And Philosopher
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Author : Philip R. Hardie
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-07-06
Lucretius Poet And Philosopher written by Philip R. Hardie and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
On The Nature Of Things
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-04
On The Nature Of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-04 with categories.
Titus Lucretius Carus was born almost a century before Jesus Christ (c. 99 BC - c. 55 BC). But what really surprises are his clear thinking and sensible view on things, described in in "The Nature of Things". One will definitely be wide-eyed while turning the pages of this work of art. His scientific view will astonish the reader again and again.A rather confusing story happened to "The Nature of Things": it disappeared, lost and finally found nearly 6 00 years ago.Thanks to a man who stumbled across this manuscript on a dusty old bookshelf we can now enjoy this really well-worked high-quality book written more than 2 thousand years ago, but still popular, modern and up-to-date.This e-book is very good edited, so it is convenient and pleasant to read, navigate and highlight the most interesting and pivotal parts.We believe you will find a true enjoyment reading this brainy book, so we recommend you some more good readings for intelligent people with inquisitive minds.
Lucretius
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Author : Claudia Schindler
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-12-12
Lucretius written by Claudia Schindler and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume provides an introduction to Lucretius’ De rerum natura, the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem, and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.