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Lucretius: Atoms and Opinions [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 1991 It is argued that the scientific programme most clearly articulated by Lucretius is still appropriate today, although it continues to represent a minority view of the world. In 'De rerum natura' Lucretius formulated the goals of explaining, without religious or supernatural assumptions, the properties of all living and non-living things in terms of the
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2009 Milton‟s Chaos is described at one point as „the Womb of Nature and perhaps her grave‟. Though this phrase translates some words of Lucretius, this essay argues that the link of Chaos with a womb is one of the most original ideas in Paradise Lost.
Neil Forsyth
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The Cambridge companion to Lucretius /
, 2007 This is an accessible but thought-provoking introduction to one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius. Contributors discuss Lucretius' 'De Rerum Natura' in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary text and as a vehicle for ...
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XVII-XVIIIIn the story and history of the survival and reception of the works of the Greek philosopher and the Roman poet who constitute the Epicurus-Lucretius tandem across the centuries, from the fourth century BCE (Epicurus) and the first century BCE (Lucretius)
John Baker
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The Entangled Phenology of the Olive Tree: A Compiled Ecological Calendar of Olea Europaea L. Over the Last Three Millennia With Sicily as a Case Study. [PDF]
Geohealth, 2023 Ferrara V, Ingemark D.
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Ibn al-Haytham's ground theory of distance perception. [PDF]
Iperception, 2022 Sedgwick HA.
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Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. Disbound, lacking title page and A1. Pr. Henricus Petri, Basel, August 1531. Lucretius’ work was known as early as the ninth century, but then practically disappeared from view until a manuscript was discovered and ...
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Lucretius, translated into Basque by A. Ibinagabeitia
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2018 This article includes a previously unpublished Basque translation by Andima Ibinagabeitia: Lucretius' De rerum natura, 1-43. In order to place that work in context, we have endeavoured to establish a list of the literary works translated into Basque by ...
Gidor Bilbao Telletxea
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DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE MYTH: VIRGIL’S READING OF LUCRETIUS
Истраживања, 2011 Virgil's didactic poem Georgike was written, among other things, as a kind of an intertextual dialogue with works of the poet’s predecessors and the established masters of this subgenre - Hesiod, Arat, and Lucretius above all.
Милица Кисић
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L’allitération triple chez Lucrèce
KentronThe aim of this paper is to study triple alliterations in Lucretius, undoubtedly the most characteristic of Lucretian alliterations. Corresponding to linguistic realities, they result from a rhetoric of repetition in which the figures of repetition ...
Antoine Foucher
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