The Cambridge Companion to LucretiusStuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie Cambridge University Press, 18. 10. 2007 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. |
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... Poets and Teachers: Latin Didactic Poetry and the Didactic Authority of the Latin Poet from the Renaissance to the Present (1999). She has co-edited Dufresnoy's De arte graphica (2005). She is editing (with J. Ruys) a collection on ...
... Poets and Teachers: Latin Didactic Poetry and the Didactic Authority of the Latin Poet from the Renaissance to the Present (1999). She has co-edited Dufresnoy's De arte graphica (2005). She is editing (with J. Ruys) a collection on ...
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... poet, Virgil. Lucretius and Catullus are the two giants of Latin poetry at the end oftheRomanRepublic,withoutwhose ... poetic persona, they share the status of major contributors to the naturalisation of Greek culture in Rome (the ...
... poet, Virgil. Lucretius and Catullus are the two giants of Latin poetry at the end oftheRomanRepublic,withoutwhose ... poetic persona, they share the status of major contributors to the naturalisation of Greek culture in Rome (the ...
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... poet since Lucretius to have taken the trouble to understand the work and methods of. 10 See p. 72 below. 11 And indeed American culture: on the Mexican neo-Latin poets Diego Jos ́e Abad and Rafael Land ́ıvar see respectively Kerson 1988 ...
... poet since Lucretius to have taken the trouble to understand the work and methods of. 10 See p. 72 below. 11 And indeed American culture: on the Mexican neo-Latin poets Diego Jos ́e Abad and Rafael Land ́ıvar see respectively Kerson 1988 ...
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... poet Dr Zhivago, expresses it, 'When modern man is vexed by the mysteries of the universe he turns to physics, not to Hesiod's hexameters.'20 Recent studies of science and literature have tended to reverse the perspective: instead of ...
... poet Dr Zhivago, expresses it, 'When modern man is vexed by the mysteries of the universe he turns to physics, not to Hesiod's hexameters.'20 Recent studies of science and literature have tended to reverse the perspective: instead of ...
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... poet;30 in this gap the apocryphal story in Jerome has expanded to become the 'myth of Lucretius', a stimulus for versions of Lucretius as a tormented and suicidal individual driven by dissatisfactions not simply sexual. A gloomily ...
... poet;30 in this gap the apocryphal story in Jerome has expanded to become the 'myth of Lucretius', a stimulus for versions of Lucretius as a tormented and suicidal individual driven by dissatisfactions not simply sexual. A gloomily ...
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Part II Themes | 129 |
Part III Reception | 203 |
Dateline | 325 |
WORKS CITED | 327 |
GENERAL INDEX | 358 |
INDEX OF MAIN LUCRETIAN PASSAGES DISCUSSED | 366 |
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Aeneid ancient Anti-Lucretius argument atheism atomistic atoms Augustan Bacon Book Catullus century Christian Cicero conflict contemporary context critique defines Democritus Descartes didactic discussion divine DRN’s Dryden early earth echoes edited Empedocles English Enlightenment Ennius epic Epicurean Epicurus Essay Evelyn fear of death figure final find fire first Gassendi Georgics gods Greek Hardie Herculaneum hexameter Homer Horace human hymn ideas imitated infinite influence Kant Kenney later Latin lines literary Longinus Lucretian Lucretius Lucy Hutchinson Marullus material Memmius mind modern Montaigne Montaigne’s moral nature Ovid passage Philodemus philosophical physical plague pleasure poem poem’s poet poet’s poetic poetry Polignac political proem reader recent reflect religion religious rerum rhetorical Roman Rome Schiesaro scientific Sedley sense significance soul specific STUART GILLESPIE sublime superstition theory things tion tradition translation universe uoluptas Venus verse Virgil vision void Voltaire writing
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Strana 321 - All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.
Strana 157 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth...
Strana 33 - O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth Of poesy ; a bursting forth Of genius from the dust ! What Horace gloried to behold, What Maro loved, shall we unfold ? Can haughty Time be just ? ODE TO LYCORIS.
Strana 267 - Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife,. his children, and his friends unseen. 310 In vain for him the officious Wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little Children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence.
Strana 157 - ... so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Strana 266 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Strana 142 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed.
Strana 12 - Abyss to spy: He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time : The living Throne, the sapphire-blaze Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Strana 141 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Strana 141 - He formed them ; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces — no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.