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| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura IV Titus Lucretius Carus, 1986 With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Of the Nature of Things T. Lucretius Carus, 2022-09-15 In Of the Nature of Things, T. Lucretius Carus presents a seminal work that intertwines poetic elegance with philosophical inquiry, fundamentally rooted in Epicurean thought. The poem delves into the nature of the universe, exploring concepts of atoms, void, and the natural laws that govern existence. Through vivid imagery and clear articulation, Lucretius seeks to demystify the cosmos, arguing against the superstitions of his time by emphasizing empirical observation and rational discourse. The work is not merely a philosophical treatise; it is a rich tapestry of metaphysical musings that invites readers to reconsider the relationship between humanity and the universe, asserting that understanding nature's workings leads to tranquility and liberation from fear of the divine. Lucretius, a Roman poet and philosopher active in the 1st century BCE, was deeply influenced by the teachings of Epicurus, whose materialist philosophy aimed to free humanity from the anxieties of religion and fate. Living in a time marked by political turmoil and moral uncertainty, Lucretius's work reflects not only his intellectual commitments but also a profound desire for human flourishing through knowledge. This blend of poetry and science showcases his remarkable ability to convey complex ideas in an accessible and artistic manner. Of the Nature of Things is an essential read for anyone interested in philosophy, science, or poetry. It serves as a critical bridge between ancient thought and modern scientific perspectives, challenging readers to question their perceptions of reality. Whether you are a scholar or a casual reader, Lucretius's insights will resonate, encouraging a reflective understanding of nature and existence. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura Don Fowler, 2002 Lucretius' theory of atomic motion is one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura, and, for that reason, has hitherto been neglected by commentators. This is the first commentary to take account of the remarkable discoveries and re-evaluations in the field of Hellenistic philosophy over the past thirty years, which have been stimulated by the publication of many more Epicurean fragments from Herculaneum. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Approaches to Lucretius Donncha O'Rourke, 2020-07-16 Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura Titus Lucretius Carus, 1996 No Marketing Blurb |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius on Disease George Kazantzidis, 2021-04-19 The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with. However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem’s philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product. The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning—both inside and outside the text. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius and the Language of Nature Barnaby Taylor, 2020-06-05 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. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura III Titus Lucretius Carus, 1997 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. The third book not only seeks to demonstrate that, since the soul is mortal, there can be noafter-life, but also aims to reconcile the reader to the prospect of the end of his consciousness. This edition incorporates a new text and prose translation and is designed to set the book in the context of the whole poem and of the Epicurean philosophical system, to explain and elucidate itsargument, and at the same time to analyse some of the literary and artistic features which contribute to Lucretius' poetic achievement and stature. Latin text with facing page translation. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Epicurean Political Philosophy James H. Nichols, 1976 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura David Butterfield, 2013-10-17 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. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: 'Tis False Etienne Arnaud, 1859 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: The Language of Atoms W. H. Shearin, 2014-12-01 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. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Titus Lucretius Carus, 1907 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius and the Diatribe against the Fear of Death Barbara Price Wallach, 2018-08-14 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura VI Titus Lucretius Carus, 1991 The purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion of the ... |
| de rerum natura lucretius: The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence Alison Brown, 2010-05-05 Brown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius—earlier and more widely than has been supposed—to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies. She enhances our understanding of the “revolution” in sixteenth-century political thinking and our definition of the Renaissance within newly discovered worlds and new social networks. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius David B. Suits, Timothy J. Madigan, 2011 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius on Death and Anxiety Charles Segal, 2016-04-19 In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius in the Modern World W.R. Johnson, 2015-03-02 Lucretius' On the Nature of Things - one of the glories of Latin literature - provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century, despite its vital contributions to modern thought and civilisation, it has been largely neglected by common readers and scientists alike. This book offers an extensive description of the poem, with special emphasis on its cheerful version of materialism and on its attempt to devise an ethical system that suits such a universe. It surveys major relevant texts form the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Dryden, Diderot, Voltaire, Tennyson, Santayana) and speculates on why Lucretius and the ancient scientific tradition he championed has become marginalised in the twentieth century. It closes with a discussion of what value the poem has for students of science and technology in the new century: what advice it has to offer us about how to go about reinventing our machines and our morality. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie, 2007-10-18 Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, philosophy and science discuss the poem in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary text and as a vehicle for progressive ideas. The Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Lucretius, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of classical antiquity and its reception. It is completely accessible to the reader who has only read Lucretius in translation. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: The Lucretian Renaissance Gerard Passannante, 2011-11-25 With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this strain of ancient Greek philosophy survived and was transmitted to the Renaissance primarily by means of a poem that had seemingly been lost—a poem insisting that the letters of the alphabet are like the atoms that make up the universe. By tracing this elemental analogy through the fortunes of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, Passannante argues that, long before it took on its familiar shape during the Scientific Revolution, the philosophy of atoms and the void reemerged in the Renaissance as a story about reading and letters—a story that materialized in texts, in their physical recomposition, and in their scattering. From the works of Virgil and Macrobius to those of Petrarch, Poliziano, Lambin, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Gassendi, Henry More, and Newton, The Lucretian Renaissance recovers a forgotten history of materialism in humanist thought and scholarly practice and asks us to reconsider one of the most enduring questions of the period: what does it mean for a text, a poem, and philosophy to be “reborn”? |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Empedocles Redivivus Myrto Garani, 2007-12-12 This book consists of a thorough study of Lucretius’ poetic and philosophical debt to Empedocles, focusing on their respective uses of analogy and examining how both poets turn these poetic techniques to use in their epistemological approaches to nature. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura Lucrèce, 1947 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles Geoffrey Steadman, 2012-10-11 This book is a graded Latin reader of four Greek myths (Perseus, Heracles, Jason and the Argonauts, and Ulysses) originally composed by Francis Ritchie. Facing each page of the Latin text is a single page of corresponding vocabulary and grammatical commentary. Once readers have memorized the core vocabulary list, they will be able to read the Latin text and consult all relevant vocabulary and grammatical notes without turning a page. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: On the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus, 1921 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Myth and Poetry in Lucretius Monica R. Gale, 2007-05-21 Lucretius' De Rerum Natura is a philosophical epic, devoted to the exposition of Epicurean philosophy. Since the system was materialistic, and highly critical of myth and poetry, Lucretius' use of mythological language and imagery is surprising. Dr. Gale considers the poem against the background of earlier and contemporary views of myth, and suggests that Lucretius was well aware of the tension between his two roles as poet and philosopher, and attempted to resolve it by developing a bold and innovative theory of myth and poetry. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura Titus Lucretius Carus, 2009 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. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Global Tree Project Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, 2012 'The Global Tree Project' is an international art initiative from Shinji Turner-Yamamoto that seeks to open and affirm connections between audiences and the natural world. The selected projects documented transport viewers to a ruined folly overlooking the Celtic Sea, the Mongolian Gobi Desert and more. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: On the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus, 1995 Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and he died in the year 55. Writing in the waning days of the Roman Republic - as Rome's politics grew individualistic and treacherous, its high-life wanton, its piety introspective and morbid - Lucretius sets forth a rational and materialistic view of the world which offers a retreat into a quiet community of wisdom and friendship. Even to modern readers, the sweep of Lucretius's observations is remarkable. A careful observer of nature, he writes with an innocent curiosity into how things are put together - from the oceans, lands, and stars to a mound of poppy seeds, from the applause of a rooster's wings to the human mind and soul. Yet Lucretius is no romantic. Nature is what it is - fascinating, purposeless, beautiful, deadly. Once we understand this, we free ourselves of superstitious fears, becoming as human and as godlike as we can be. The poem, then, is about the universe and how human beings ought to live in it. Epicurean physics and morality converge. |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius , 1937 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Jane McIntosh Snyder, 1980-01-01 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: T. Lucretius Carus. The Epicurean Philosopher, His Six Books De Natura Rerum Titus Lucretius Carus, 1683 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: Lucretius: the Way Things are , 1974 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: John Evelyn's Translation of Titus Lucretius Carus De Rerum Natura Titus Lucretius Carus, Michael M. Repetzki, 2000 «It remains, however, slightly surprising that Evelyn was attracted to Lucretius, for, despite his appeal to men like Gassendi and Charleton, Lucretius was a figure who had long been frowned on in orthodox circles, » Michael Hunter, the unrivalled expert on Evelyn's philosophical and scientific interests, states in his article on the translator. In addition to presenting, for the first time, the full text of Evelyn's translation of De rerum natura, still in manuscript in the British Library, this study tries to answer the question why the project appealed at all to somebody who «had a worldview which could hardly be further from a clear, atomistic exposition of things.» |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura . the Roman Poet of Science, Lucretius : de Rerum Natura Titus Lucretius Carus, 1955 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De rerum natura libri sex with nołes and a translation by H. A. J. Munro Titus Lucretius Carus, 1866 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: The Way Things are [by] Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus, 1969 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: The Scheme of Epicurus Titus Lucretius Carus, 1884 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura , 1987 |
| de rerum natura lucretius: De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things) Lucretius, 2008-08-06 This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius's majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over the course of six books. This sumptuous account of a secular cosmos argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas. Renowned author, translator, and poet David R. Slavitt has captured Lucretius's elegance as well as his philosophical profundity in this highly readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought. |
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