Oxford Readings In Lucretius
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Lucretius
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Author : Monica Gale
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2007
Lucretius written by Monica Gale and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its readers of the validity of the rationalist theories of Epicurus. An Introduction contextualizes the essays, and all Greek and Latin is translated.
Lucretius
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Author : Monica Gayle
language : en
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Release Date : 2007
Lucretius written by Monica Gayle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Pre-Socratic philosophers categories.
Oxford Readings In Ovid
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Author : Peter E. Knox
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-12-22
Oxford Readings In Ovid written by Peter E. Knox and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavours.This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entrée into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood.
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 And The Language Of Nature
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Author : Barnaby Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-06-05
Lucretius And The Language Of Nature written by Barnaby Taylor and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-05 with History categories.
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.
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.
Oxford Readings In Tacitus
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Author : Rhiannon Ash
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-21
Oxford Readings In Tacitus written by Rhiannon Ash and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with History categories.
This collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.
T Lucretius Carus Of The Nature Of Things In Six Books Translated Into English Verse By Tho Creech A M Late Fellow Of Wadham College In Oxford In Two Volumes Explain D And Illustrated With Notes And Animadversions Being A Compleat System Of The Epicurean Philosophy
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1714
T Lucretius Carus Of The Nature Of Things In Six Books Translated Into English Verse By Tho Creech A M Late Fellow Of Wadham College In Oxford In Two Volumes Explain D And Illustrated With Notes And Animadversions Being A Compleat System Of The Epicurean Philosophy 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 1714 with Latin poetry categories.
Material World
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Author : Guy Hedreen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-05-31
Material World written by Guy Hedreen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-31 with Philosophy categories.
Scholars from ancient and early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science explore the interplay between nature, science, and art in influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance.
Oxford Readings In Propertius
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Author : Ellen Greene
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-08-09
Oxford Readings In Propertius written by Ellen Greene and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-09 with History categories.
This is the first volume on Propertius to bring together some of the best and most influential scholarship on his poetry and put them into dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent developments in classical scholarship and look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and political context of Propertius' work.