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“Past fearing death”: Epicurean ethics in Measure for Measure
Sillages Critiques, 2013 The numerous allusions to Montaigne’s Essays and Lucretius’ De rerum natura, especially in Act III of Measure for Measure, suggest that non only an “evangelical” but an Epicurean reading of the play is possible, according to which the Duke is not so much
Jonathan Pollock
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Circe and the Poets: Theocritus IX. 35-36 [PDF]
, 1987 published or submitted for ...
Parry, Hugh
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The Soft Side of Stone: Notes for a Phenomenology of Stone [PDF]
, 2007 Stone represents the firmness and intransigence of the world within which we live and act. But beyond the perception and appropriations of stone, diverse meanings lie hidden between the hardness of stone and its uses.
Berleant, Arnold
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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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Squaring the Epicurean Circle: Friendship and Happiness in the Garden [PDF]
, 2017 Epicurean ethics has been subject to withering ancient and contemporary criticism for the supposed irreconcilability of Epicurus’s emphatic endorsement of friendship and his equally clear and striking ethical egoism.
Rossi, Benjamin
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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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Don't Fear the Reaper: An Epicurean Answer to Puzzles about Death and Injustice [PDF]
, 2007 I begin by sketching the Epicurean position on death - that it cannot be bad for the one who dies because she no longer exists - which has struck many people as specious. However, alternative views must specify who is wronged
Cushing, Simon
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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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