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Roberts, Hugh. ""The boundless realm of unending change" : Shelley and the politics of poetry." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28525.
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This thesis argues that in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius Shelley found an insight into the role of contingency in physical and historical process which allowed him to go beyond the limitations of an intellectual inheritance divided between post-Kantian Romanticism and the sceptical revolutionary Enlightenment. This insight entails radical implications for our understanding of the political role of the literary text. Shelley conceives society in evolutionary terms, making poetry a revolutionary clinamen (or mutation) in the iterative cycles of social reproduction. Models drawn from contemporary chaos theory help us to understand how this entropic tendency to disorder can work simultaneously as a negentropic motor of social innovation. Building on the work of Michel Serres, who demonstrates that Lucretius anticipates the recent scientific interest in "determinate indeterminacy," this thesis shows that Shelley's understanding of historical process and the role of the poet in social reproduction has anticipated some of the implications of contemporary "chaos science" in ways that suggest models for the general application of this new paradigm of contemporary scientific thought to literary and political issues.
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Montserrat, Sangrà Jesús Maria. "Explicació atomística de fenòmens físics relacionats amb el pes, la calor i l'aigua, a través de "De rerum natura" de Lucreci." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1803.
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Aquesta tesi està dedicada a l'estudi de les explicacions dels fenòmens físics relacionats amb el pes, la calor i l'aigua, ofertes pel poema De rerum Natura de l'atomista epicuri llatí Lucreci (Titus Lucretius Carus, 99/93-55/50 a.C.) En ella s'identifica el poema com un tractat complet i coherent de física epicúria. S'exposa un resum de l'atomisme grec, iniciat per Leucip i Demòcrit i desenvolupat per Epicur. I també es discuteixen alguns punts problemàtics de les doctrines d'aquest, com ara l'explicació de les propietats de les coses per les formes i grandàries relatives dels seus àtoms i partícules compostes, l'explicació de l'origen del món o la funció dels quatre elements.
Es debaten qüestions relatives al pes dels cossos observables. Es mostra que en De rerum Natura el pes d'un cos és caracteritzat bàsicament com una força, resident en el mateix cos, que l'empeny cap avall, i amb la qual ell al seu torn empeny allò que té a sota o estira allò al qual està lligat; però també apareix caracteritzat en termes de moviment, com una tendència a caure o com una oposició a ser mogut o desviat del seu camí. S'analitzen les escasses dades referents a l'acceleració de caiguda. S'expliciten els factors, considerats per Lucreci, que provoquen moviments ascendents: extrusió, falta d'aire al damunt d'un cos, flux ascendent de partícules, força del vent i força de l'ànima; els mateixos factors, o semblants, es troben en l'explicació del sosteniment de les coses, com ara el animals o la terra. El món en conjunt també es troba sostingut pels àtoms que l'envolten.
Es tracten els fenòmens relacionats amb la calor, que Lucreci considera constituïda per àtoms molt petits, llisos i rodons; i amb el fred, constituït per àtoms més grans i punxeguts. Es reconeixen els àtoms de calor i de foc com a constituents dominants en alguns cossos, com ara les flames. Altres vegades aquests àtoms es troben en un cos causant un augment de la separació entre les seves partícules i un afluixament dels lligams entre elles, cosa que provoca la dilatació, la fusió o l'evaporació del cos. Altres vegades estan latents a dins d'un cos, com ara una fusta, i poden provocar-ne l'escalfament, o fins i tot la ignició, si s'agrupen com cal a causa d'una percussió, una fricció, un moviment o una arribada de partícules de calor i de foc des de fora. Es reconeix un cicle de la calor en el món, amb diversos bucles; el principal està constituït per partícules de calor que conflueixen des de tot arreu cap a la regió astral, en especial cap al sol, i que tornen a ser emeses des d'aquí també cap a tot arreu.
S'explicita el cicle de l'aigua, amb diversos bucles, i les explicacions dels fenòmens que hi intervenen; l'aigua apareix constituïda per àtoms petits, rodons i llisos, en comparació amb els de la terra, però no tan petits com els de la calor ni els de l'aire. El cos de l'aigua es veu destruït pels raigs del sol i pels vents, que desfan el seu teixit corpuscular, i així les partícules d'aigua passen a l'aire. Tornen a agrupar-se i a constituir aigua líquida quan són capturades per un teixit adequat, com el dels núvols; aquests la deixen caure sobretot quan són comprimits. La major part dels bucles són comuns entre els autors grecs i romans; però un es troba només en Lucreci: el formen les partícules d'aigua que entren i surten del món.
S'inclou, com apèndix, un "Índex d'idees en De rerum natura" molt detallat, que permet la ràpida localització dels versos referents a cada idea.
Lucretius's poem is introduced in the thesis as a treatise on Epicurean atomistic physics, and a summary of Greek atomism is offered. Some problematic points of Epicurean doctrines are discussed, like the explanation of the world's origin or the role of the four traditional elements.
Various questions related to Epicurean ideas on weight of visible bodies, and on their fall, ascension and sustenance are debated. The weight of a body appears basically as a force which resides inside it and pushes it downwards. The scarce data related to fall acceleration are analyzed. The processes that cause the ascent of things are identified: extrusion, lack of air only above a body, ascending stream of particles, force of wind and force of the soul. The sustenance of the world by the surrounding atoms is made clear.
The subjects related to heat and cold, formed by specific atoms, are treated; among them, the effects of heat on things: increase of separation and loosening of bonds between their particles, which produces their expansion and softening, melting or evaporation. Heat atoms latent in a thing, like in wood, can constitute heat and provoke warming or ignition, if they adequately regroup by percussion, friction, movement or arrival of other particles. Heat makes a complex cycle with different loops; the main one is constituted by heat particles which flow from the whole world to the sun and astral zone, and are sent back out again.
The water cycle reflected in De rerum natura is reconstructed, and explanations of phenomena involved in it are analyzed. Water is formed by smooth, round, tiny atoms, as opposed to solid materials like earth, but not as small as those of heat or air. In the evaporation it suffers destruction by the sun rays and winds, which scatter its particles into the air; when these rejoin, mainly by being trapped in the clouds' tissue, they form liquid water again. These processes must not be interpreted as transformations of "elements" into one another, but as partial destructions and generations of the great members of the world.
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Shelton, Matthew James. "Madness in Lucretius' De rerum natura." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11946.
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In the following thesis I examine the experience and etiology of madness in Epicurean philosophy and focus on Lucretius’ accounts of epistemology, disease and emotion in De rerum natura. I situate my general argument within Lucretius’ accounts of the physical and cognitive aspects of emotional disorder.
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Gale, Monica Rachel. "Myth in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239210.
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Woolerton, Emma Murdina. "Lucretius de Rerum Natura 2.333-729 : critical analysis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615856.
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Butterfield, D. J. "The early textual history of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597190.
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The thesis concerns the manuscript history of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura between the work’s composition in the mid-first century BC and its rediscovery by Poggio in 1417/18. The thesis develops the arguments proving the descent of the Poggianus from O (s.IX), thereby rendering the Italian manuscripts mere codices descripti, and therefore focuses upon three related ninth century mss O, Q and S (= GVU). The thesis bolsters knowledge about the direct and indirect transmission of Lucretius’ DRN with a view to establishing a more secure basis for the editing and textual criticism of the poem. The first chapter outlines the major details about OQS, attempting to reconstruct their origins and individual histories from being written until arriving in their current locations. Various loose ends regarding the citation of codices and lections in printed editions and (by hand) in the margins of a number of such books, are tidied up. The chapter then treats the relationship of the Italic mss to OQS. The second chapter summaries the utility of the indirect tradition for DRN. On the basis of a complete apparatus fontium for the work (published online), and a survey of all mentions and citations of Lucretius, from the mid-first century BC to the early fifteenth century AD, an evaluation of such witnesses is provided. The capitula interspersed throughout the poem and the indices of them preceding Books IV-VI repay close study. I argue that they originated as marginal jottings from two readers of Antiquity, seemingly intended only for their own benefit. On the basis of a full collation of all corrections in O (totalling over 2,000 items and published online), six later hands are distinguished. Of these, only one (that of the Irishman Dungal) is shown to have used another manuscript as he worked, albeit not always. The modus operandi of each of these various annotators is analysed thoroughly. Some 28 marginal jottings in a Carolingian hand can be found spread throughout Q. Chapter 5 briefly treats their role and surveys the few other notes that entered Q prior to the Renaissance (pre-Q2). A revised reconstruction of the archetype’s foliation is attempted, along with a succinct discussion of scripts of preceding phases of transmission.
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Godwin, John. "Aesthetic ethics in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius." Thesis, Open University, 1998. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57862/.
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The avowed purpose of Lucretius' poem is the ethical conversion of the reader, but ethics comes a very poor second to the physics in apparent importance within the text. This thesis argues that for Lucretius ethics is closely linked to aesthetics in the following ways: 1) ethics for Lucretius is a matter of seeing the truth about the world and thus relies on our senses and a'{aeT7OlS 2) the wise man is advised to watch the world aesthetically with all its sufferings rather than become involved in politics and love himself, the aesthetic appreciation of the spectacle being recommended as the ethically correct way to live. This last is a theatrical stance and is well supported by Lucretius' debt to the theatre which underlies so much of the poem; the poem draws on the theatre as a metaphor and simile as well as using examples drawn from plays, both tragic and comic, in preference to taking ethical examples from Roman 'life'. The status of the ·wise man looking down is also close to that of the Homeric gods and gives the poet and the reader the divine life which the text promises both in the freedom from fear and pain and also in the serene appreciation of the world as an aesthetic phenomenon; it also explains the sense in which Epicurus is seen in the poem as divine.
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Buglass, Abigail Kate. "Repetition and internal allusion in Lucretius' 'De Rerum Natura'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b20951f7-d299-4c5f-8470-5e67be1340ff.
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This thesis aims to solve the apparent problem of the frequent repetitions in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (DRN). Verbal repetitions of many different lengths pervade DRN, and are noted in the scholarship. Yet a consensus has not been reached as to their purpose and function, or even if they rightly belong in the text. Multi-linear repetitions are viewed as a temporary stop-gap which Lucretius would have removed or adjusted had he lived long enough to effect it; or as later interpolations; while shorter repetitions are underplayed or even ignored altogether. But repetitions and internal allusions in DRN are part of a purposeful, meaningful didactic and rhetorical strategy, and they form much of the intellectual structure of the poem. These internal connections combine in DRN to form a remarkably complex intratextual network. The thesis argues that repetition is a crucial way in which Lucretius conveys his arguments and persuades the reader to pursue a rational life. Chapter 1 analyses the ways in which Lucretius' epic predecessors used repetition and how Lucretius may have applied these models. Chapter 2 looks at the internal evidence for the alleged unfinished state of the poem and examines the function of long repetitions in DRN. Chapter 3 investigates the rhetorical background to and functions of different kinds of repetition in DRN. Chapter 4 explores the didactic and psychological effects of repetitions and internal allusions. Chapter 5 shows how repetition creates an image of the world Lucretius describes: just as Lucretius tells us that atoms and compounds make up different substances depending on their arrangement in combination, so repetitions perform different functions and produce different outcomes depending on their placement in the text. Throughout the poem, repetition serves again and again to reinforce Lucretius' message, creating argumentative unity, and bringing order from chaos.
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Holm, Seth. "Honeyed cups: latent didacticism in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12782.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. An updated version of this dissertation was published in TAPA 143.2: "The Specter of Tantalus: Didactic Latency in Dererum natura." https://classicalstudies.org/publications-and-research/TAPA/tapa-issue-1432This dissertation approaches Lucretius' poem as an attempt to communicate persuasively across the border between science, Literature and religion. Acknowledging the challenge that Lucretius was issuing to his Roman audience, I offer a reading of De Rerum Natura as a piece ofphilosophical evangelism directed toward individuals in a society that was generally apathetic toward philosophy and particularly hostile toward Epicureanism. Many of Lucretius' contemporaries perceived the Epicurean doctrines of divine passivity as a threat to the sanctity of traditional morality and an attempt to dismantle the very framework on which their society was built. In this hostile intellectual climate, Lucretius employed literary convention and rhetorical innovation in order to make his rejection of the supernatural acceptable and appealing to an audience steeped in a culture of myths and gods. To this end, Lucretius presented his audience with a philosophical treatise that, in part, resembled an epic poem. Lucretius himself likened his poetry to the honey rimming the medicine cup to disguise the bitter taste of the philosophy within (1.925ff.). This dissertation identifies new "honeyed cups" beyond Lucretius' use of verse. I begin by defending the poem's disputed didactic intent as genuine (ch. 1), and outline the challenges that Lucretius faced in presenting his philosophy to his Roman audience (ch. 2). I then characterize the subtle didacticism that Lucretius employed to overcome those challenges (ch. 3), bringing together the contributions of previous Lucretian scholarship to form a complex picture that reveals Lucretius' use of wordplay , literary allusion, and progressive naturalization of myth as elements of a unified pedagogical strategy (ch. 4). I then proceed to describe the psychagogic quality of "latent myths," illuminating previously underappreciated passages in which Lucretius subtly references popular mythology within descriptions of natural phenomena, creating implicit mythological allegories that serve both to naturalize myth, and also to encourage subliminally the impulse to see nature's truth within supernatural fictions (ch. 5).
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Morenval, Alexandra. "Le Tout et l'infini dans le De rerum natura de Lucrèce." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAL011/document.
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Cette étude a pour objectif de démontrer l'importance capitale de Lucrèce dans l'introduction de l'infini à Rome et au sein de l'histoire de la philosophie : bien qu'il se fonde sur les écrits de son maître grec, Épicure, le poète propose une réponse nouvelle, originale, moderne et féconde à la dialectique du Tout et de l'infini en réconciliant ces deux notions au moyen de son poème en langue latine. Sous son stylet, l'infini devient plus réel, plus tangible et évident, plus vaste et intense, plus enthousiasmant et grandiose. La poésie n'est pas seulement un agrément. Elle contribue à la maîtrise de l'infini épicurien et à la valorisation de cette notion. La démarche adoptée pour cette démonstration, bien que littéraire à la base, est transdisciplinaire : l'étude tente d'offrir une vision synthétique de l'infini de Lucrèce, poète, philosophe et scientifiqueThis study aims to demonstrate Lucretius'major role in the introduction of infinity in Rome and within the history of philosophy. Although he bases his argument on the writings of his Greek teacher, Epicurus, the poet offers a new, original, modern and fertile answer to the dialectic of the Whole and infinity when reconciling these two notions by means of his poem in Latin language. Under his stylus, infinity becomes more real, more tangible and obvious, vaster and more intense, more exciting and magnificent. The poetry is not only a charm. It contributes to the good command of the Epicurean infinity and to the promotion of this notion. The approach I adopted for this demonstration, although literary at the root, is interdisciplinary : the study tries to offer a synthetic view of the infinity of Lucretius, a poet, a philosopher and a scientist
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Deufert, Marcus. "Pseudo-Lukrezisches im Lukrez : die unechten Verse in Lukrezens "De rerum natura /." Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36993238k.
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Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Bonn--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1996.Contient des extraits, en latin, du "De rerum natura" de Lucrèce. Bibliogr. p. 327-333. Notes bibliogr. Index.
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Baron, Eugene P. "Lucretius and his reader : a study of Book II of De Rerum Natura /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266691094727.
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Campbell, Gordon Lindsay. "Lucretius on creation and evolution : a commentary on "De rerum natura", 5.772-1104 /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39087919v.
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Montarese, Francesco. "A study of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I 635-920 : Lucretius and his sources." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445492/.
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My thesis is a study of lines 635-920 of DRNI, Lucretius' refutation of the theories about the fundamental nature of matter elaborated by Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other unnamed thinkers. My main concern is establishing what source Lucretius used in these lines and how he used it. In chapter 1 I give my reasons for believing that Lucretius, in DRN I635-920, was following an Epicurean source, which in turn derived its information from Theophrastean doxography. In chapter 21 argue that books XIV and XV of the IIO were not Lucretius' source-text for Lucretius' refutation of earlier thinkers. In chapter 31 discuss how lines 635-920 fit in the structure of the first book of Lucretius' poem, whether the critique was an addition from a later stage in composition, and whether the source is more likely to be Epicurus himself or a later Epicurean author. In chapter 41 focus on Lucretius' own additions to the material he found in his source and his poetical and rhetorical contributions. Lucretius contributed extensively himself to this section as a finished poetic product. It will appear that even if the philosophy comes from the source, Lucretius shows understanding of the points in the way he adapts his poetical devices to the philosophical arguments. It will also appear that Lucretius foreshadows philosophical points in what have often been thought the 'poetical sections' or 'purple passages' of his poem (e.g. the invocation of Venus in the proem, and the description of Sicily and Aetna in DRN I 716-733), so that he could take them up later on in his narrative and provide an adequate explanation of reality.
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Freitas, Leandro César Albuquerque de. "Análise e tradução do Livro I do De rerum natura de Tito Lucrécio Caro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-15082018-145331/.
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O epicurismo apresentou teorias sobre a física que constituíam, em boa parte, uma continuidade do pensamento materialista antigo, ainda assim, há certamente muitos elementos originais em seu pensamento para destacá-lo e torná-lo em um sistema reconhecido por sua própria importância. Como se desenvolveu em uma filosofia de amplo alcance, e por isso mesmo muito visada por adversários, além dos conteúdos de sua física, ética e canônica, disciplinas principais de seu pensamento, Epicuro e os membros de sua escola viam-se compelidos a opinar em assuntos que transcendiam esse grupo de investigações. É notório o conjunto de opiniões que a escola teria apresentado sobre o lavor poético e a veiculação de mitos; testemunhos de Plutarco, Sexto Empírico, Cícero e outros marcam essa postura como de oposição a essas expressões, oposição essa que certamente encontra respaldo na orientação pela busca pela felicidade por meio da remoção do indivíduo das fontes de perturbação com as quais normalmente essas formas de expressão se associam. Ainda assim, a obra mais apreciada dessa mesma escola, o poema De rerum natura do romano Tito Lucrécio Caro, escrito no século I a.C. é notória por transigir com relação a essas modalidades de expressão \"rechaçadas\" por sua escola. Além dessa aparente transgressão, um outro elemento digno de nota nesse poema é a recusa em se usar um termo apenas para referenciar os átomos, definitivamente singularizado por Epicuro por meio do termo ἄτομος e ocasionalmente retomado também por meio termo σομα pelo autor grego. As opções de cunho estético (uso da forma poética e de elementos míticos) revelam a adesão a um programa didático estabelecido e nos convidam a relativizar a postura epicurista e a buscar elementos mais sólidos que corroborem uma visão não tão sectária como a veiculada pelos críticos da doutrina. De outra parte, a variação vocabular reflete o desenvolvimento do programa didático encampado, no qual se faz uso de posições de outros pensadores (pré-socráticos) a respeito dos componentes essenciais da matéria, posições essas que são convenientemente deturpadas como forma de desqualificar escolas de pensamento ativas e influentes na época de Lucrécio (estoicismo e a academia). Outra função que esse expediente cumpre é a de adiantar ao leitor a explicação de conceitos complexos sobre o atomismo, a partir dos quais a exposição das teses epicuristas possa se dar de uma forma mais rápida e completa.Epicureanism presented theories on physics that can be seen to continue, for the most part, the ancient materialistic thought of the pre-socratics. Even so, it has certainly many original ele-ments on itself so it may be considered to have its own relevance and importance. As it became a well known philosophy in its time, and therefore a constant target for its adversaries, it needed to approach other subjects beyond the contents of its intended fields: physics, canonics and ethics. For this reason, Epicuro and the members of its school were compelled to provide posi-tions on aesthetic matters, even though this was not a primordial object of inquiry. The set of opinions that the school may have presented on subjects such as poetic creation and the propa-gation of myths is well known; testimonies of Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, Cicero and others mark epicureanism stance as of oppositon to these forms of expressions. This alledged hostility certainly finds endorsement on the guidance for the pursuit of happiness by means of the re-moval of sources of disturbance normally associated with those means of expression. Still the most appreciated work of the epicurean school, the poem De rerum natura by the Roman author Titus Lucretius Carus, writen in the 1st century BC, is notorious for its compromise with regard to those modes of expression \"repeled\" by epicureans. Beyond this apparent violation, another noteworthy element in this poem is the refusal of a single term to mean \'atom\', which was definitively singularized by Epicuro by means of the term ἄτομος and, occasionally referred also by the term σομα. The options of aesthetic matrix (use of the poetical form and mythical elements) disclose Lucretius\' adherence to an established didactic program and invite us to rel-ativize the epicurean position and to search for more solid elements that support a view on aesthetic and mythic matters less sectarian than the one propagated by the critics of the doctrine. On the other hand, the vocabulary variation reflects the development of the didactic program, in that sense Lucretius makes use of positions of other thinkers (pre-socratic thinkers) regarding the essential components of matter. Those positions are conveniently misrepresented so to dis-qualify active and influential schools of thought at the time of Lucretius (stoicism and the Acad-emy). These misrepresentations help Lucretius to guide the reader throught complicated con-cepts and by this mean the exposure of the Epicurean thesis can be performed in a faster and more complete way.
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Campbell, Gordon Lindsay. "A commentary on Lucretius 5. 772-1104." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365601.
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Nervi, Mauro [Verfasser]. "La chimica dell`anima : Illuminismo e consolazione nel III libro del "De rerum natura" / Mauro Nervi." München : GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1063693543/34.
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Cipriani, Mattia. "La place de Thomas de Cantimpré dans l’encyclopédisme médiéval : les sources du Liber de natura rerum)." Paris, EPHE, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EPHE4021.
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Le Liber de Natura Rerum est encyclopédie médiévale qui répond à la nécessité d’avoir un texte capable d’expliquer la nature et la Bible, c’est-à-dire la volonté du Créateur. Son compilateur, le dominicain Thomas de Cantimpré, avoue qu’il a voulu aider les prédicateurs et la lourde tâche de la pédagogie chrétienne: consolider la foi des croyants, une foi sans erreurs. Notre travail a reconstruit le texte du Liber et en a donne une nouvelle édition, accompagnée de la déclarations de toutes le sources identifiables; en même temps, nous avons montre ces sources dans une table exacte et nous les avons expliqué. Après l’édition philologique, le texte de Thomas a été soumis à un plan pour en voir exactement l’ensemble historique et culturel. Aussi, nous avons recueilli les données scientifiques de Thomas, ses sources explicites et implicites. Enfin, nous avons analysé les rapports entre l’encyclopédie de Thomas de Cantimpré et l’ensemble de l’encyclopédisme du Moyen Age: une réflexion approfondie au sujet d’un genre mayeur par la quantité des textes et la qualité de la coordination symbolique et théologique des données. De cette façon, notre analyse ne se borne pas à la description du point de vue de la philologie: elle dresse le portrait du Liber du point de vue de ermeneutique, de façon que notre projet a étudié les différents sources de l’oeuvre de Thomas de Cantimpré et l’a placé dans l’encyclopédisme médiévalThe Liber de Natura Rerum is a medieval encyclopedia born from the need of a text capable of explaining nature and the Bible, viz. The Will of the Creator. The Dominican Thomas de Cantimpré (1201-1270/71) compiled the work with the view of helping preachers and Christian educators strengthen the faith of believers: a faith which must be without error. In order to understand this text and its compiler, the present work has been divided into two parts: 1) a new philological reconstruction of the Liber together with a statement of all the identifiable sources used by the Flemish Dominican; 2) a commentary of the new Liber analysing and explaining the culture of Thomas. By observing the explicit and implicit sources and the relationship between Thomas’ work and the encyclopedism of the Middle Ages, the aims of de Cantimpré can be reconstructed. The analysis of the Liber de Natura Rerum hence is not limited to the philological level, but portrays the text in hermeneutic terms; via the analysis of the sources, Thomas de Cantimpré and his work can be placed in the complex reality of medieval encyclopedism
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Bodelón, García Serafín. "Revisión y actualización de la crítica textual lucreciana (a la luz de los manuscritos Valentianus y Casaraugustanus)." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Oviedo, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/11126.
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Tomando como base el Codex Valentianus, único manuscrito español de Lucrecio, se plantea una revisión del texto del autor, comparándolo con los manuscritos Oblongus y Quadratus de Leyden y con las ediciones existentes del de rerum natura.
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Salas, Matienzo Lyn Mayra. "El gobierno de Venus : reformulación del rol político de la diosa Venus en De Rerum Natura de Tito Caro Lucero (siglo I a. C.)." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/7671.
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Existe abundante literatura dedicada a la interpretación de Venus en De rerum natura, poema del I a.C. del filósofo epicúreo y poeta romano Lucrecio. Sin embargo, las distintas apariciones de Venus a lo largo del poema, si bien están vinculadas a la noción epicúrea de ἡδονή o a otra categoría de la tradición filosófica griega, rebasan, en significado, esta referencia. Así, es legítimo rastrear el sentido de Venus en la filosofía epicúrea y, en general, en la tradición griega, desde Homero hasta Empédocles, lo cual nos permite afirmar que, en la obra de Lucrecio, el rol de Venus adquiere una nueva dimensión, sin precedentes.
Proponemos que, por un lado, gracias a Venus, el poeta Lucrecio compone versos bellos para derrocar la religión. Pero, sobre todo, la diosa personifica el ordenamiento de la naturaleza y la reintegración del orden social al orden natural. El filósofo Lucrecio, en su lucha contra la divinidad, presenta a Venus como un elemento que expresa una racionalización del universo en términos políticos. Para sustentar nuestra hipótesis, hemos accedido al latín de Lucrecio para identificar en él conceptos de la política romana asociados indiscutiblemente al gobierno de la naturaleza, que nuestra diosa preside.Tesis
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Tollstedt, Mia. "Om dödens betydelse eller icke-betydelse : – En läsning av epikurismens förhållande till döden, utifrån Lucretius Om tingens natur." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2679.
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Uppsatsen tar upp frågan om döden inom den epikureiska filosofin. Det visar sig att frågan kan delas upp i flera frågor. Dessa delfrågor kring döden är kopplade till olika rädslor. Uppsatsen tar även upp hur frågan kring döden blir bron mellan metafysiken och etiken inom den epikureiska filosofin. Uppsatsens huvudpunkt är utredningen av Lucretius, De rerum natura. Uppsatsen följer Lucretius argumentation kring naturen, världen och universums uppbyggnad , gudarnas förehavanden och till slut döden som en icke-händelse och därför inget att frukta. För att förstå Lucretius bör man även studera Epikuros originaltexter. Frågan är om Lucretius argument tillför någonting nytt inom den epikureiska filosofin, eller om Lucretius endast omformulerar och ger nya liknelser kring det som redan står att finna i Epikuros originaltexter. Uppsatsens slutsats blir att Lucretius egentligen inte tillför någonting nytt och att Epikuros argument om döden som en icke-händelse står sig bra.The purpose of this essay is to examine the question of death within the epicurean philosophy. The main question can be divided into part questions. These part questions are connected to different fears. The essay also discusses how the question of death becomes the bridge between metaphysics and ethics within the epicurean philosophy. The essay’s main focus is the examination of Lucretius, De rerum natura. The essay follows Lucretius argumentation about the construction of nature, the word and universe, the whereabouts of the gods and finally death as a non-event and therefore nothing to fear. To understand Lucretius one also has to study the original texts written by Epicurus. The question is if Lucretius argument adds anything new to the epicurean philosophy, or if Lucretius only rephrases and comes up with new metaphores about what already is found in the original texts by Epicurus. The essay’s conclusions are that Lucretius doesn’t add anything new, and that Epicurus original argumentation about death as a non-event is strong.
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Park, E. C. "Plato and Lucretius as philosophical literature : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:97c3ba13-d229-429d-83fc-138fcbaf58b1.
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This thesis compares the interaction of philosophy and literature in Plato and Lucretius. It argues that Plato influenced Lucretius directly, and that this connection increases the interest in comparing them. In the Introduction, I propose that a work of philosophical literature, such as the De Rerum Natura or a Platonic dialogue, cannot be fully understood or appreciated unless both the literary and the philosophical elements are taken into account. In Chapter 1, I examine the tradition of literature and philosophy in which Plato and Lucretius were writing. I argue that the historical evidence increases the likelihood that Lucretius read Plato. Through consideration of parallels between the DRN and the dialogues, I argue that Plato discernibly influenced the DRN. In Chapter 2, I extract a theory of philosophical literature from the Phaedrus, which prompts us to appreciate it as a work of literary art inspired by philosophical knowledge of the Forms. I then analyse Socrates’ ‘prelude’ at Republic IV.432 as an example of how the dialogue’s philosophical and literary teaching works in practice. In Chapters 3 and 4, I consider the treatment of natural philosophy in the Timaeus and DRN II. The ending of the Timaeus is arguably an Aristophanically inspired parody of the zoogonies of the early natural philosophers. This links it to other instances of parody in Plato’s dialogues. DRN II.333-380 involves an argument about atomic variety based on Epicurus, but also, through the image of the world ‘made by hand’, alludes polemically to the intelligently designed world of the Timaeus. Through an examination of Plato’s and Lucretius’ polemical adaptation of their predecessors, I argue that even the most seemingly technical passages of the DRN and the Timaeus still depend upon literary techniques for their full effect. The Conclusion reflects briefly on future paths of investigation.
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Gambino, Ulrika Susanna. "Savoir de la nature et poésie des choses : Lucrèce et Epicure à la Renaissance." Paris, EHESS, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999EHESA038.
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A partir de la redecouverte humaniste du de rerum natura la recherche entend cerner les diverses roles que lucrece et epicure ont joue, entre le xve et le xvie siecles. La premiere partie de la these analyse les grands themes historiques et philosophiques dans l'etude de la fortune d'un auteur. Lucrece y est confronte a la philologie et aux problemes de la transmission des textes anciens (chapitre i). On s'attache ensuite a l'analyse de la grande saison de l'ethique epicurienne et de l'integration dans la pensee ethique de certains humanistes de l'hedonisme epicurien (chapitre ii). On tente d'etablir la veritable place de l'epicurisme au sein du pretendu atheisme de la renaissance (chapitre iii). Enfin, on examine un phenomene plus inattendu, la facon ou lucrece et epicure interviennent pour 'corriger' la physique aristotelicienne (chapitre iv). La seconde partie est consacree a l'influence de lucrece comme modele rhetorique et litteraire et a l'utilisation qu'en font certains ecrivains et theoriciens de la litterature dans le debat autour de la poetique d'aristote. L'analyse porte sur la poesie scientifique neo-latine et son emploi du modele de lucrece. Celui-ci entraine des procedes comme l'usage des metaphores, de la mythologie et le pathos de la poesie cosmologique (examines au chapitre i). Des themes plus specifiquement litteraires, exercent une influence considerable sur la poesie renaissante et transmettent l'ideologie et l'image lucretiennes de la nature (examines au chapitre ii). Enfin, on a essaye de comprendre le theme de lucrece-modele en confrontant des traites qui affichent deliberement le de rerum natum comme modele a imiter, avec la declinaison de la figure de lucrece lui-meme, le poete fou et melancolique. L'etude se conclut sur la tentative reussie, operee par la culture de la contre-reforme, de neutraliser lucrece et l'epicurisme.
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Gristelli, Juliana. "”Det kändes lyckligt” : En studie av Kerstin Thorvalls Det mest förbjudna (1976) i ljuset av Epikuros och Lucretius hedonistiska filosofi." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169958.
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Denna uppsats analyserar och tolkar Kerstin Thorvalls roman Det mest förbjudna (1976) komparativt i ljuset av begrepp från Epikuros (341 f. Kr. - c:a 270 f. Kr.) hedonistiska och materialistiska filosofi framställd i dess mest betydande kvarstående källa, Lucretius (c:a 95 f. Kr. - c:a 55 f. Kr.) lärodikt De rerum natura. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka om/hur motiv ur Epikuros etik förekommer i Thorvalls roman; och att utforska om hedonism medverkar/motverkar feminism i romanen. Metoden är en tvärvetenskaplig komparativ analys och tolkning mellan Thorvalls roman och Epikuros filosofi i Lucretius dikt. Metoden inspireras av Pierre Machereys i boken À quoi pense la littérature (1990). Undersökningsresultat struktureras tematiskt efter några av de jämförda verkens motiv: religionens ondo, behovet av att avlägsna rädslan för döden, njutningen som det högsta goda, kritiken av tvåsamma kärleken, synen på kunskap. Min teoretiska utgångspunkt är Epikuros och Lucretius hedonistiska filosofi; och, i mindre utsträckning, ett intersektionellt perspektiv (med fokus på kategorierna kön, genus och sexualitet). Resultatet visar huvudsakligen att trots skillnader gällande begärens begränsning, kan slutsatsen dras att Thorvall gör en feministisk omtolkning av hedonistiska motiv och vägleder läsaren mot ett feministiskt och hedonistiskt etiskt mål.
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Van, Eimeren Kenneth Steven. "Dealing with dvinity in De rerum natura." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3159.
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Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura has as one of its main goals the extermination of traditional conceptions of the gods, but gods pervade the poem in a variety of roles, beginning with the very first line, invoking Venus. This report seeks to analyze the ways in which Lucretius exploits popular notions of the divine while remaining true to both his Epicurean beliefs and his anti-theistic agenda, as well as the reasons behind these decisions. We begin with an exploration of the role of the poetic medium in this situation, followed by a close examination of the entire proem. Lucretius’ negative views about religio are brought to light and are contrasted with his supportive views regarding religious metaphor, partly through an investigation into Lucretius’ representation of Epicurus as divine. The final section of this report identifies some of the same dynamics at play in Lucretius in modern atheistic discourse and draws more general conclusions about the nature of anti-theistic discourse in a world dominated by theistic assumptions.text
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"Die aard van die gode in Lucretius se De Rerum Natura 5:146-155." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14061.
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Ryan, Kelly Erin. "Poeticizing Epicurus in Lucretius' De rerum natura." 2005. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/ryan%5Fkelly%5Fe%5F200505%5Fma.
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Tee, Lauren. "Foedera naturae in Lucretius' De rerum natura." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7520.
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Lucretius wrote his six-book philosophical epic poem De Rerum Natura a few decades before the fall of the Roman Republic and the start of the principate and the reign of Augustus in 27 BC, in a time of great social and political upheaval. This thesis examines Lucretius’ appropriation and correction of traditional Roman social and political rhetoric as part of his therapeutic philosophical programme, which aims to alleviate fear and anxiety through a rational understanding of nature. Specifically, this thesis examines Lucretius’ innovative use of foedus, a charged Roman word with many powerful connotations which is generally translated as “treaty”, “pact” or “covenant”. More than just an agreement, a foedus represented a divinely sanctioned ritualized contract between Rome and another polity, one which could not be broken without grave spiritual and political repercussions. They were an integral part of Roman life and culture and were strongly associated with imperialism, ambition, religion and sacrifice, and so Lucretius’ decision to adopt that word for the unthinking, unchanging, atheistic, necessary laws that limit and guide nature – despite his explicit condemnation of exactly those values foedus represents – is at first glance mystifying. As this thesis will show, however, foedus turns out to be an exceedingly apt choice, infusing almost every aspect of Lucretius’ Epicurean work with subtle complexity and meaning and contributing strongly to his polemical, therapeutic, ethical and didactic agendas.
This thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter examines the social, political and philosophical contexts which influenced Lucretius to adopt Epicureanism. It then delves into some of the issues surrounding his innovative use of foedus. Chapter Two attempts to answer the research question of why foedus? by comparing and contrasting the essential characteristics of Roman foedera against those of Lucretius’ foedera naturae. This in turn provides a more detailed picture of Lucretius’ philosophical system both in terms of its physical and ethical doctrines, and suggests some possible motivations for Lucretius’ choice. Chapter Three looks at the deeper significance of Lucretius’ use of foedus and its role in his therapeutic programme of correction. Driving this chapter is Lucretius’ exploitation of the etymological connection between the noun foedus (‘treaty’, ‘covenant’) and the adjective foedus, ‘foul’. Chapter Three is divided into two sections, each focusing on Lucretius’ masterful manipulation of foedus and its etymological roots – as well as generic expectations and language in general –first for polemical purposes, then for therapeuticGraduate
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Markovic, Daniel. "The rhetoric of explanation in Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura" /." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3242930.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4170. Adviser: Howard Jacobson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-156) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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"Beyond Epicurus: A Reading of Lucretius’ De rerum natura." Tulane University, 2019.
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archives@tulane.eduThis study focuses on the ways in which Lucretius instructs us to read his philosophic poem, De rerum natura. Taking our bearings from a little-studied digression in the poem on the types of readers for whom Lucretius writes, we find many passages in which an ostensibly materialist argument gives way to reveal metaphoric applications of what is traditionally taken to be Epicurean theory. Proceeding this way, we hope to establish the possibility that Lucretius can be read as putting Epicureanism to his own use, not just as a poet in search of a topic, but as a philosopher revealing a nuanced understanding of human nature and its need for assurance. We take a close look at Lucretius’ arguments for void, free will, the substance of the soul, his refutation of the myth of the Magna Mater, his mockery of erotic love, his theme centering on utilitas, and finally his statements about Epicurus throughout the poem. Through this novel investigation of key moments and images, we try to establish a serious gap between Lucretius and Epicurus, wherein Lucretius critiques what he presents as a dogmatic program that fails to account for the human being. In doing so, Lucretius points the way to a deeper teaching about the place of the human in nature, the difficulty of seeing nature itself without reference to human interest, and the challenge to materialism of coming to self-knowledge. Ultimately, we argue, Lucretius goes beyond the confident safety of Epicureanism and arrives at his own more zetetic philosophy.
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Tremblay-Lemieux, Charlotte. "Le mouvement chez Lucrèce : de la voluptas au fluctus." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21267.
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