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A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (Paperback)
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A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (Paperback)
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Lucretius' philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of
Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the
universe and, in particular, the world of nature and creation in
which humanity finds its abode. This earliest surviving full scale
epic poem from ancient Rome was of immense influence and
significance to the development of the Latin epic tradition, and
continues to challenge and haunt its readers to the present day. A
Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura offers a comprehensive
commentary on this great work of Roman poetry and philosophy. Lee
Fratantuono reveals Lucretius to be a poet with deep and abiding
interest in the nature of the Roman identity as the children of
both Venus (through Aeneas) and Mars (through Romulus); the
consequences (both positive and negative) of descent from the
immortal powers of love and war are explored in vivid epic
narrative, as the poet progresses from his invocation to the mother
of the children of Aeneas through to the burning funeral pyres of
the plague at Athens. Lucretius' epic offers the possibility of
serenity and peaceful reflection on the mysteries of the nature of
the world, even as it shatters any hope of immortality through its
bleak vision of post mortem oblivion. And in the process of
defining what it means both to be human and Roman, Lucretius offers
a horrifying vision of the perils of excessive devotion both to the
gods and our fellow men, a commentary on the nature of pietas that
would serve as a warning for Virgil in his later depiction of the
Trojan Aeneas.
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