The Rhetoric Of Explanation In Lucretius De Rerum Natura
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The Rhetoric Of Explanation In Lucretius De Rerum Natura
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Author : Daniel Markovic
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-08-31
The Rhetoric Of Explanation In Lucretius De Rerum Natura written by Daniel Markovic and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-31 with History categories.
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.
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.
Lucretius De Rerum Naturabook Iii
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Author : Lucretius
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Lucretius De Rerum Naturabook Iii written by Lucretius 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 2014-08-14 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
A Quest For Remembrance
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Author : Madeleine Scherer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-20
A Quest For Remembrance written by Madeleine Scherer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory. Its chapters investigate the uses of the descent topos both in antiquity and in the reception of classical literature in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. In the process, the volume explores how the hero’s quest into the underworld engages with the theme of recovering memories from the past. At the same time, we aim to foreground how the narrative format itself is concerned with forms of commemoration ranging from trans-cultural memory, remembering the literary and intellectual canon, to commemorating important historical events that might otherwise be forgotten. Through highlighting this duality this collection aims to introduce the descent narrative as its own literary genre, a ‘memorious genre’ related to but distinct from the quest narrative.
Lucretius And His Sources
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Author : Francesco Montarese
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-05-29
Lucretius And His Sources written by Francesco Montarese and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Philosophy categories.
This book discusses Lucretius’ refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920. Chapter 1 argues that in DRN I 635-920 Lucretius was following an Epicurean source, which in turn depended on Theophrastean doxography. Chapter 2 shows that books 14 and 15 of Epicurus’ On Nature were not Lucretius’ source-text. Chapter 3 discusses how lines 635-920 fit in the structure of book 1 and whether Lucretius’ source is more likely to have been Epicurus himself or a neo-Epicurean. Chapter 4 focuses on Lucretius’ own additions to the material he derived from his sources and on his poetical and rhetorical contributions, which were extensive. Lucretius shows an understanding of philosophical points by adapting his poetical devices to the philosophical arguments. Chapter 4 also argues that Lucretius anticipates philosophical points in what have often been regarded as the ‘purple passages’ of his poem - e.g. the invocation of Venus in the proem, and the description of Sicily and Aetna - so that he could take them up later on in his narrative and provide an adequate explanation of reality.
Lucretius And The End Of Masculinity
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Author : Michael Pope
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-25
Lucretius And The End Of Masculinity written by Michael Pope 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 2023-05-25 with History categories.
Argues that Lucretius presents the male body as ineluctably vulnerable and thereby shows Roman masculinity to be a fiction.
Teaching Through Images
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-20
Teaching Through Images written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this volume an international team of early career and more established scholars explores the ways in which didactic poets of Greco-Roman antiquity use imagery, broadly defined, in order to convey their teaching.
Mirrors And Mirroring From Antiquity To The Early Modern Period
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Author : Maria Gerolemou
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Mirrors And Mirroring From Antiquity To The Early Modern Period written by Maria Gerolemou and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with History categories.
This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The international scholars brought together here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine – prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.
Strategies Of Polemics In Greek And Roman Philosophy
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Author : Sharon Weisser
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-07-18
Strategies Of Polemics In Greek And Roman Philosophy written by Sharon Weisser and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-18 with Philosophy categories.
This volume brings together eleven papers written by specialists of ancient philosophy, focusing on philosophical polemics from the Classical to the Roman period, by way of Hellenistic philosophy.
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.
