Epicurean political philosophy: the De rerum natura of Lucretius

The language of atoms : performativity a

📁 The language of atoms : performativity and politics in Lucretius' De rerum natura

✍ Shearin, Wilson H 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

While scholarship on Lucretius has looked to connect De rerum natura to its larger cultural and historical context, it has never turned to speech act theory in this quest. This omission is striking at least in so far as speech act theory was developed precisely as a way of locating language

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Backgrou

📁 Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹

✍ Philip R. Hardie; Valentina Prosperi; Diego Zucca 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 🌐 English

Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to modern times.

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Backgrou

📁 Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Background and Fortunes of De Rerum Natura

✍ Philip R. Hardie; Valentina Prosperi; Diego Zucca 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 🌐 English

Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to modern times.

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Backgrou

📁 Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹

✍ Philip R. Hardie (editor); Valentina Prosperi (editor); Diego Zucca (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to mo

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Backgrou

📁 Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹

✍ Philip R. Hardie (editor); Valentina Prosperi (editor); Diego Zucca (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to mo

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V

📁 Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V

✍ Titus Carus Lucretius; Monica Gale 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance.