Approaches to Lucretius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Lucretius write by Donncha O'Rourke. This book was released on 2020-07-16. Approaches to Lucretius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Approaches to Lucretius
Approaches to Lucretius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Lucretius write by Donncha O'Rourke. This book was released on 2020-07-16. Approaches to Lucretius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired – and condemned – for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of classicists and philosophers to take stock of a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text's strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, the 'atomology' that posits a correlation of the letters of the poem with the atoms of the universe, the literary and philosophical intertexts that mediate the poem, and the political and ideological questions that it raises. Thirteen essays take up a variety of positions within these traditions of interpretation, innovating within them and advancing beyond them in new directions.
Lucretius and the Language of Nature
Lucretius and the Language of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucretius and the Language of Nature write by Barnaby Taylor. This book was released on 2020-06-05. Lucretius and the Language of Nature available 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.
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucretius on Creation and Evolution write by Gordon Lindsay Campbell. This book was released on 2003. Lucretius on Creation and Evolution available 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.
A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura
A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura write by Don Fowler. This book was released on 2002. A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura available 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.
