Download or read book Cicero s Knowledge of Lucretius s Poem written by William Augustus Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero s Knowledge of Lucretius s Poem written by William Augustus Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero s Knowledge of Lucretius Poem written by William Augustus Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers on Lucretius On the influence of Lucretius on Horace Cicero s knowledge of Lucretius s poem Studies in the text of Lucretius The archetype of Lucretius Corruption in the manuscripts of Lucretius written by William Augustus Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero s Knowledge of Lucretius Poem written by William Augustus Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero s Knowledge of Lucretius s Poem written by William August Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero s Knowledge of Lucretius s Poems written by William Augustus Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titus Lucretius Carus (99 BC - c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De rerum natura about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as On the Nature of Things. Very little is known about Lucretius's life; the only certain fact is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated. De rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil (in his Aeneid and Georgics, and to a lesser extent on the Satires and Eclogues) and Horace. The work virtually disappeared during the Middle Ages but was rediscovered in 1417 in a monastery in Germany by Poggio Bracciolini, and it played an important role both in the development of atomism (Lucretius was an important influence on Pierre Gassendi and the efforts of various figures of the Enlightenment era to construct a new Christian humanism. Virtually nothing is known about the life of Lucretius. He was probably a member of the aristocratic gens Lucretia, and his work shows an intimate knowledge of the luxurious lifestyle in Rome. Lucretius's love of the countryside invites speculation that he inhabited family-owned rural estates, as did many wealthy Roman families, and he certainly was expensively educated with a mastery of Latin, Greek, literature, and philosophy. Jerome tells how he was driven mad by a love potion and wrote his poetry between fits of insanity, eventually committing suicide in middle age; but modern scholarship suggests this account was probably an invention. In a letter by Cicero to his brother Quintus in February 54 BC, Cicero said: "The poems of Lucretius are as you write: they exhibit many flashes of genius, and yet show great mastership." By this time, both Cicero and his brother had read De rerum natura, and so might have many other Romans. A literary evaluation of Lucretius's work, however, reveals some repetition and a sudden end to Book 6 during a description of the plague at Athens. The poem appears to have been published without a final revision, possibly due to its author's death. If this is true, Lucretius must have been dead by 54 BC. In the work of another author in late Republican Rome, Virgil writes in the second book of his Georgics, apparently referring to Lucretius, "Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all fears, unavoidable fate, and the din of the devouring Underworld." A brief biographical note is found in Aelius Donatus's Life of Virgil, which seems to be derived from an earlier work by Suetonius. The note reads: "The first years of his life Virgil spent in Cremona until the assumption of his toga virilis on his 17th birthday (when the same two men held the consulate as when he was born), and it so happened that on the very same day Lucretius the poet passed away." However, although Lucretius certainly lived and died around the time that Virgil and Cicero flourished, the information in this particular testimony is internally inconsistent: If Virgil was born in 70 BC, his 17th birthday would be in 53. The two consuls of 70 BC, Pompey and Crassus, stood together as consuls again in 55, not 53.
Download or read book Lucretius On the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Textual Criticisms on the Eighth Book of the De Vita Caesarum of Suetonius written by William Hardy Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Cicero written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Cicero is a collection of essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars that situates Cicero in the context of his use and abuse from antiquity to the present, and is intended to provide readers with several good reasons to return to the study of Cicero's writings with greater interest and respect.
Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lucretius in the Modern World written by W.R. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lucretius written by Claudia Schindler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to Lucretius’ De rerum natura, the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem, and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.
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Download or read book The Limits of Exactitude in Greek Roman and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission written by Nicoletta Bruno and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on Calvino’s observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone. The eighteen essays in this interdisciplinary volume show how ancient and medieval authors have been dealing with the problem of exactitude vs. inexactitude and have been able to exploit the ambiguities related to these two concepts to various ends. The articles focus on rhetoric and historiography (section I), exact sciences and technical disciplines (II), the peculiarity of quotations (III), cases of programmatic inexactitude (IV) and textual transmission (V). Several interconnected questions weave a net across the volume: to what extent is exactitude the goal in ancient and medieval texts? How can the concepts of accuracy and inaccuracy aid the reinterpretation of an already known text or fact? To what extent can certain definitions of exactitude be stretched, without turning into inexactitude? The volume presents an extensive study capable of highlighting the shrewdness and aptness of the concepts introduced by Calvino more than thirty years ago.
Download or read book University of California Publications in Classical Philology written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
