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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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Hedonism Before Bentham [PDF]

, 2015
The hedonistic theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are both widely known. Hedonism before Bentham, however, is much less known and, hitherto, no systematic presentation of hedonism’s early history has been written.
Moen, Ole Martin
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Lucretius or the philosophy of chemistry [PDF]

, 1997
A world view deriving from the objective knowledge acquired by the physical sciences is contrasted with the fashionable subjective philosophical view that all systems of thought are equally valid ways of structuring the universe.
Mackay, Alan L.
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Come back, Lucretius [PDF]

, 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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Lucretius' apocalyptic imagination [PDF]

Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 2020
L’articolo prende in esame i tratti apocalittici (in senso letterale) del De rerum natura di Lucrezio, suggerendo il confronto con testi che appartengono al corpus delle apocalissi pseudepigrafe giudaico-ellenistiche ; la descrizione della peste come ‘apocalisse’ conclusiva del poema e le sue implicazioni politiche ed escatologiche; infine il rapporto ...
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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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Il porco e la maggiorana. Per una lettura epicurea del carme 13 di Catullo

Lexis, 2023
In addition to a reminiscence of some epigrams written by the Epicurean Philodemus of Gadara, in Catullus 13 we can also recognize an allusion to some verses of Lucretius (6.973‑8), in which the marjoram unguentum is placed alongside the image of the ...
Piacenza, Nicola
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