The employment of mythological language and imagery by an Epicurean
poet - an adherent of a system not only materialist, but overtly
hostile to myth and poetry - is highly paradoxical. This apparent
contradiction has often been ascribed to a conflict in the poet
between reason and intellect, or to a desire to enliven his
philosophical material with mythological digressions. This book
attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims
and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the
role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background
of earlier and contemporary views. The author suggests that
Lucretius was not only aware of the tension between his two roles
as philosopher and poet, but attempted to resolve it by developing
his own, Epicurean poetic, together with a bold and innovative
theory of the origins and meaning of myth.
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