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Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0856686948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLucretius' 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: Don Fowler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780199243587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'In Lucretius on Atomic Motion Don Fowler produces a commentary of Lucretius like no other. His commentary achieves the status of a meta-commentary... what makes this commentary claim our attention is the range of texts, both poetic and philosophical, ancient and modern, that Fowler brings to bear in revealing the deep background --and the later fortune - of Lucretius' poem.' -Diskin Clay, Times Literary SupplementThis is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura. The late Don Fowler sets new standards for Lucretian studies in his awesome command both of the ancient literary, philological, and philosophical background to this Latin Epicurean poem, and of the relevant modern scholarship.
Author: Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780199263967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It gives an anti-teleological mechanistic theory of zoogony and the origin of species that does away with the need for any divine aidor design in the process, and accordingly it has been seen as a forerunner of Darwin's theory of evolution. This commentary locates Lucretius in both the ancient and modern contexts, and treats Lucretius' ideas as very much alive rather than as historical concepts. The recent revival of creationismmakes this study particularly relevant to contemporary debate, and indeed, many of the central questions posed by creationists are those Lucretius attempts to answer.
Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780486434469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108421962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Author: David Butterfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-17
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 110703745X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: William Ellery Leonard
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2008-08-08
Total Pages: 916
ISBN-13: 9780299003647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this monumental work. It features an introduction to Lucretius's life and work by William Ellery Leonard, an introduction to and commentary on the poem by Stanley Barney Smith, the complete Latin text with detailed annotations, and an index of ancient sources. --University of Wisconsin Press.
Author: A. P. Sinker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08-22
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1107621186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of Lucretius' philosophical poem 'De rerum natura' intended to clarify the poem's overarching themes to a first-time reader. It also gives a brief running commentary on the individual books as well as more detailed notes on selected passages, which are reproduced in the original Latin.
Author: Bárbara Price Wallach
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9789004045644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780856684999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 ...
