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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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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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L'antiquité classique, 1956 La grande disproportion entre le génie du de rerum natura et le peu d'informations que nous possédons concernant l'auteur — pratiquement rien, puisque les rares données biographiques sont sans valeur — nous a amené à douter de l'historicité de Lucrèce.
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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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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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What does it mean to be a post‐Newtonian? Schelling on competing scientific models
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract While Schelling's position has often been portrayed as highly critical of Newton, his discussion of Newton's theories has never been thoroughly studied. The goal of this paper is to analyze in more detail the relationship between Schelling and Newton, with an eye toward the fundamental question that guides Schelling: how can conflicts between ...
Raphaël Authier
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