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Lucretius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Lucretius

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. What is the world made of? How can we be happy? What happens after death? Drawing on the philosophical teachings of Epicurus, Lucretius seeks to answer these and other big questions in his masterful poem 'On the nature of things'. This book offers a selection of key passages from the poem. In addition it gives students insight into its artistic inventiveness, provides a cultural and historical frame of reference, and offers access to the Epicurean philosophy underlying the poem.

Lucretius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Lucretius

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-12-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Lucretius’ De rerum natura, written around 55 BCE, ranks among the most influential texts in Roman literature. The poet’s vision of a world made of atoms, his mockery of the fear of death and the gods, and fervent advocacy of the mortality of the soul over many centuries incensed his critics on one hand, and on the other earned him a devoted following. This volume provides an introduction to the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.

Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-09
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Lucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by false beliefs about the gods, and a detailed exposition of Epicurean atomist physics. For centuries, it has raised the question of whether it is primarily a poem or primarily a philosophical treatise, which also presents scientific doctrine. The current volume seeks to unite the three disciplinary aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - in order to offer a holistic response to an important monument in cultural history. With ten original essays and an analytical in...

De Rerum Natura
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

De Rerum Natura

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 politica...

Lucretius: The Way Things Are
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Lucretius: The Way Things Are

Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 612

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

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.

Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Myth and Poetry in Lucretius

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.

Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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Titus Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Titus Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1722
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Lucretius on the Nature of Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Lucretius on the Nature of Things

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 BCE) was a Roman poet and philosopher whose only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things