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The Modern Import of Lucretius’s Sublime
CoSMO, 2016 Lucretius’ 1st century B.C. poem De rerum natura was immensely influential in the genesis of the notion of the sublime in 18th centuryEurope. This influence tends to be eclipsed by that of Longinus and his essay “On the Sublime”, translated by Boileau in
Jonathan Pollock
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Cogenza e contemporaneità dell’etica epicurea a partire da una recente raccolta di studi
Lexicon Philosophicum, 2020 The following critical note aims at highlighting the liveliness and depth of three crucial thesis of Epicurean Ethics, by drawing on a recent publication, edited by Enrico Piergiacomi, of a selection of essays by Phillip Mitsis, A. S.
Chiara Rover
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, 2015 Book review of: From Where We Came: poems. By Arthur J. Stewart (2015). Knoxville: Celtic Cat Publishing. xiv + 92 pp. $15.00 (paper).
Cartmill, Matt
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Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2021 This article will examine how and to what extent the ancient tradition of the didactic poem exerts an influence on contemporary German nature poetry. It will focus in particular on Raoul Schrott’s „Tropen“ and Marion Poschmann’s „Geliehene Landschaften“,
Lorella Bosco
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Generalized crystallography [PDF]
, 2002 X-ray crystal structure analysis can now be seen as a special kind of microscopy which is being extended to the recognition and examination of many kinds of ordered structure more general than crystals and which leads to their synthesis or construction ...
Mackay, Alan L.
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Lucretius on Imagination and Mental Projection
Aitia, 2020 Lucretius sometimes speaks of the mind ‘projecting’ itself, echoing the Epicurean Greek technical term epibolē. The way in which he and other first-century BCE Epicureans use this concept, however, elevates it beyond anything we can find in Epicurus, and
David Sedley
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The poetics of anthropogony: men, women, and children in Lucretius, book five
Eugesta, 2014 “The Poetics of Anthropogony: Men, Women, and Children in Lucretius, Book Five” analyzes how Lucretius handles a significant problem in Epicurean accounts of the origins of humans and human culture – namely, how a species that, unlike any other ...
Brooke Holmes
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Lucrèce : la mort, le cadavre et le deuil
Aitia, 2020 In his poem, Lucretius is looking to address the issue of death, for the purpose of eradicating the fear it raises. Lucretius wants to demonstrate that such fearis not only the most harmful for the humanity—in that it often leads to the worst human ...
Anne-Claire Joncheray
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L’épigramme de la « chambre » jaune : Micon et Péro dans la maison de Marcus Lucretius Fronto
Pallas, 2013 The room (6 )= (i) of Marcus Lucretius Fronto’s house (Pompeii) delivered a pinax showing Micon imprisoned, condemned to starve, and saved by the devotion of his daughter Pero. The peculiarity of the painting discovered in Marcus Lucretius Fronto’s house
Évelyne Prioux
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Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe [PDF]
, 2017 : In Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, springs are a central motif of the Prologue and the novel as a whole. This motif counters male domination, since it is associated with Chloe, while the flowers watered by springs in this novel are identified with Daphnis ...
Janelle Peters
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