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Lucretius and His Sources - A Study of Lucretius, "De rerum natura" I 635-920 (Hardcover)
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Lucretius and His Sources - A Study of Lucretius, "De rerum natura" I 635-920 (Hardcover)
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This book discusses Lucretius' refutation of Heraclitus,
Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum
Natura 1, 635-920. Chapter 1 argues that in DRN I 635-920 Lucretius
was following an Epicurean source, which in turn depended on
Theophrastean doxography. Chapter 2 shows that books 14 and 15 of
Epicurus' On Nature were not Lucretius' source-text. Chapter 3
discusses how lines 635-920 fit in the structure of book 1 and
whether Lucretius' source is more likely to have been Epicurus
himself or a neo-Epicurean. Chapter 4 focuses on Lucretius' own
additions to the material he derived from his sources and on his
poetical and rhetorical contributions, which were extensive.
Lucretius shows an understanding of philosophical points by
adapting his poetical devices to the philosophical arguments.
Chapter 4 also argues that Lucretius anticipates philosophical
points in what have often been regarded as the 'purple passages' of
his poem - e.g. the invocation of Venus in the proem, and the
description of Sicily and Aetna - so that he could take them up
later on in his narrative and provide an adequate explanation of
reality.
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