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M.N. Muravyov and Ancient Poets: Unpublished Translations [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2021
The article is devoted to the translations of M.N. Muravyov. We present more than ten unpublished texts from his Notebook, which is preserved at the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library: a number of works of Horace, Virgil, Anacreon ...
Alexander D. Ivinskiy
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The Moral Philosophy of Lucretius and Aquinas: Competing Ends and Means [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2021
The author first explains wisdom and its importance to moral philosophy. Secondly, he follows with a consideration of the nature of things and the soul as told by Lucretius. Then he presents a brief summary on St. Thomas understanding of soul and how his
Jason Nehez
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Reversing the Invention of Religio

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2022
This article provides an intertextual analysis of DRN 1.62-79, showing that the Sisyphus fragment (D.-K. 88B25), which represents a summa of ancient atheism, is a crucial model for Lucretius’ first eulogy of Epicurus, both at a macro and at a micro ...
Manuel Galzerano
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Ancients on Old Age

ESPES, 2023
Greek and Roman literature has bequeathed us a variety of perspectives on old age. Old age, in ancient times before there were palliatives for pain and devices to compensate for failing sense, such as eyeglasses and hearing aids, could be painful and ...
David Konstan
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Critique of Loos’s Anti-Ornament Through Lucretius and Adorno

DEPARCH Journal of Design Planning and Aesthetics Research, 2022
In this article, I will stop by an ancient source, De Rerum Natura, Lucretius’ unaccomplished two-thousand-year-old masterpiece, and try to delve into the centuries-old roots of ornamentation much older than from Gottfried Semper’s Bekleidung (dressing ...
Levent Şentürk
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Lucrèce sur les origines et le développement des arts et des métiers

Aitia, 2020
Lucretius’ story of the stages of human development from the primitive condition of the first men to our own era occupies a substantial part of the fifth chant of DRN (925-1457).
Voula Tsouna
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L’epicureismo nell’opera di Leo Strauss

Philosophy Kitchen, 2020
This essay aims to arrange and expose chronologically the references to Epicurus, Lucretius and the influence of their ideas contained in the works of Leo Strauss.
Raimondo Cubeddu
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Du rien-pour-nous que la mort: Derrida Épicure

Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2021
Derrida's Seminar “Life Death” operates, as if in advance motivated by its aftermath and as if countersigned by this name that does not appear—the name of Epicurus—a turn towards a non-productive, non-representational materialism, deprived in some way of
Jacques Lezra
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‘Master Tommy Lucretius’: Thomas Gray’s Posthumous Life Writing and Conversing with the Dead in his Poetry to Richard West

European Journal of Life Writing, 2020
This article considers Thomas Gray’s use of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura in his prolific period of writing following Richard West’s death. Gray claims himself as ‘Master Tommy Lucretius’ in reference to his Latin philosophical poem, De Principiis Cogitandi;
James Morland
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Seminal Verse: Atomic Orality and Aurality in De Rerum Natura

Eugesta, 2018
In Lucretius’ thoroughgoing materialism, hearing, like sight or taste, is tactile. Atomic material must issue from a source, move through space, and enter a receptacle in order for these sense perceptions to operate.
Michael Pope
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