De Rerum Natura III

De Rerum Natura III PDF Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0856686948
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : la
Pages : 241

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Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears.

De Rerum Natura III

De Rerum Natura III PDF Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0856686948
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : la
Pages : 241

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Book Description
Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of freeing mankind from religious fears.

De Rerum Natura IV

De Rerum Natura IV PDF Author: Lucretius
Publisher: Classical Texts
ISBN: 0856683086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry.

De Rerum Natura

De Rerum Natura PDF Author: William Ellery Leonard
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299003647
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
Languages : la
Pages : 916

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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 and the Diatribe against the Fear of Death

Lucretius and the Diatribe against the Fear of Death PDF Author: Barbara Price Wallach
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004327495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Of the Nature of Things

Of the Nature of Things PDF Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura

A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura PDF Author: Don Fowler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199243587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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'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.

The Language of Atoms

The Language of Atoms PDF Author: W. H. Shearin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190202432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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While scholarship on Lucretius has looked to connect De rerum natura to its larger cultural and historical context, it has never turned to speech act theory in this quest. This omission is striking at least in so far as speech act theory was developed precisely as a way of locating language (including texts) within a theory of action. At its root speech act theory is about how language is part of history and acts within it, and it thus holds promise for addressing this long-standing scholarly concern. Further, as this book asserts, speech act theory is not some modern development that one may apply to De rerum natura but rather a theory native, at least in some respects, to Epicurus' school. The argument contends that a central problem in Epicurean semantics may be resolved if we allow that Epicurus (or his school) developed an understanding of performative language. It reads the fragmentary remains of Epicurus' writing on language against central texts of speech act theory such as J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words and Émile Benveniste's definition of the performative as a form of speaking in which the act of speech creates its own referent. The book moves on to consider the larger place of performativity within De rerum natura, and the poem's insight on the acts of promising and naming. Bridging critical theory and ancient philosophy, The Language of Atoms will engage scholars in a host of humanities disciplines, including Classics, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature.

Introduction to Lucretius

Introduction to Lucretius PDF Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 180

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Approaches to Lucretius

Approaches to Lucretius PDF Author: Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108421962
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura PDF Author: David Butterfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703745X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.