Selections From De Rerum Natura
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Author |
: Bonnie A. Catto |
Publisher |
: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 1998-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780865163997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0865163995 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selections from De Rerum Natura by : Bonnie A. Catto
-- A brief biography of Lucretius -- History of materialist theory of the universe -- Detailed discussion of Lucretian originality and style -- Section on meter -- Bibliography The text includes 53 passages (1291 lines total) spanning the entire
Author |
: Gordon Lindsay Campbell |
Publisher |
: Oxford Classical Monographs |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199263965 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199263967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lucretius on Creation and Evolution by : Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Lucretius' 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 |
: William Ellery Leonard |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 916 |
Release |
: 2008-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0299003647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299003647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis De Rerum Natura by : William Ellery Leonard
Now 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 |
: Don Fowler |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199243581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199243587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura by : Don Fowler
'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 |
: Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 048643446X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780486434469 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Nature of Things by : Titus Lucretius Carus
The 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 |
: Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780856686948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0856686948 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis De Rerum Natura III by : Titus Lucretius Carus
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.
Author |
: Ada Palmer |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2014-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674967083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674967089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by : Ada Palmer
After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued powerfully against the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, and a creator God. Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance readers, such as Machiavelli, Pomponio Leto, and Montaigne, actually ingested and disseminated Lucretius, and the ways in which this process of reading transformed modern thought. She uncovers humanist methods for reconciling Christian and pagan philosophy, and shows how ideas of emergent order and natural selection, so critical to our current thinking, became embedded in Europe’s intellectual landscape before the seventeenth century. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates, but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met the ideas that would soon transform the world. Renaissance readers—poets and philologists rather than scientists—were moved by their love of classical literature to rescue Lucretius and his atomism, thereby injecting his theories back into scientific discourse. Palmer employs a new quantitative method for analyzing marginalia in manuscripts and printed books, exposing how changes in scholarly reading practices over the course of the sixteenth century gradually expanded Europe’s receptivity to radical science, setting the stage for the scientific revolution.
Author |
: David Butterfield |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2013-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107037458 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110703745X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura by : David Butterfield
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.
Author |
: A. P. Sinker |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 171 |
Release |
: 2013-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107621183 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107621186 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to Lucretius by : A. P. Sinker
This 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 |
: Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher |
: Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015040660451 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura by : Titus Lucretius Carus
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