Myth And Poetry In Lucretius
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Author | : Monica R. Gale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521451352 |
This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.
Author | : Charles Harold Herford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Epicureans (Greek philosophy) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daryn Lehoux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199605408 |
The volume unites the three aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - found in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers, but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds.
Author | : Phillip Mitsis |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : PHILOSOPHY |
ISBN | : 0199744211 |
This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of the philosophy of Epicurus (340-271 BCE) and then traces Epicurean influences throughout the Western tradition. It is an unmatched resource for those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicureanism's powerful arguments about death, happiness, and the nature of the material world.
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780486434469 |
The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, De Rerum Natura — On the Nature of Things — theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the Greeks, Lucretius' work remains the primary source for contemporary knowledge of Epicurean thought.
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
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Author | : Mark Heerink |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299305449 |
During a stopover of the Argo in Mysia, the boy Hylas sets out to fetch water for his companion Hercules. Wandering into the woods, he arrives at a secluded spring, inhabited by nymphs who fall in love with him and pull him into the water. Mad with worry, Hercules stays in Mysia to look for the boy, but he will never find him again . . . In Echoing Hylas, Mark Heerink argues that the story of Hylas—a famous episode of the Argonauts' voyage—was used by poets throughout classical antiquity to reflect symbolically on the position of their poetry in the literary tradition. Certain elements of the story, including the characters of Hylas and Hercules themselves, functioned as metaphors of the art of poetry. In the Hellenistic age, for example, the poet Theocritus employed Hylas as an emblem of his innovative bucolic verse, contrasting the boy with Hercules, who symbolized an older, heroic-epic tradition. The Roman poet Propertius further developed and transformed Theocritus's metapoetical allegory by turning Heracles into an elegiac lover in pursuit of an unattainable object of affection. In this way, the myth of Hylas became the subject of a dialogue among poets across time, from the Hellenistic age to the Flavian era. Each poet, Heerink demonstrates, used elements of the myth to claim his own place in a developing literary tradition. With this innovative diachronic approach, Heerink opens a new dimension of ancient metapoetics and offers many insights into the works of Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus, Virgil, Ovid, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius.
Author | : James J. O'Hara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2007-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113946132X |
How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of the literary use of inconsistencies can shed light on major problems in Catullus' Peleus and Thetis, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Lucan's Bellum Civile. Not all inconsistencies can or should be interpreted thematically, but numerous details in these poems, and some ancient and modern theorists, suggest that we can be better readers if we consider how inconsistencies may be functioning in Greek and Roman texts.
Author | : David West |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Monica R. Gale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139428470 |
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and - above all - Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns in the Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgil's poem as an extended meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods and the natural environment.