Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Author | : Jane McIntosh Snyder |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789060321249 |
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Author | : Jane McIntosh Snyder |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789060321249 |
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1968-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253201256 |
Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Didactic poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Titus Carus Lucretius |
Publisher | : Aris and Phillips Classical Te |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0856688843 |
For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance. This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which begins by putting a strong case against what it has recently become fashionable to call 'intelligent design', and ends with an account of human evolution and the development of society in which the limitations of technological progress form a strong and occasionally explicit subtext. Along the way, the poet touches on many themes which may strike a chord with the twenty-first century reader: the fragility of our ecosystem, the corruption of political life, the futility of consumerism and the desirability of limiting our acquisitive instincts are all highly topical issues for us, as for the poem's original audience. Book V also offers a fascinating introduction to the world-view of the upper-class Roman of the first century BC. This edition (which complements existing Aris and Phillips commentaries on books 3, 4 and 6) will help to make Lucretius' urgent and impassioned argument, and something of his remarkable poetic style, accessible to a wider audience, including those with little or no knowledge of Latin. Both the translation and commentary aim to explain the scientific argument of the book as clearly as possible; and to convey at least some impression of the poetic texture of Lucretius' Latin.
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 | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0856686948 |
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.
Author | : Bonnie A. Catto |
Publisher | : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0865163995 |
-- A brief biography of Lucretius -- History of materialist theory of the universe -- Detailed discussion of Lucretian originality and style -- Section on meter -- Bibliography The text includes 53 passages (1291 lines total) spanning the entire
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Didactic poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lee Fratantuono |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2015-06-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1498511554 |
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.