By Monica R. Gale
This ebook gathers jointly the most very important and influential scholarly articles of the final sixty to seventy years (three of that are translated into English the following for the 1st time) at the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the character of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to persuade its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic philosopher Epicurus. The articles gathered during this quantity discover Lucretius' poetic and argumentative process from quite a few views, and likewise think about the poem relating to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and beliefs of latest Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated.
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And in this way you will recognize these truths, led on with a little eVort. One truth will illuminate another. The dark of night will not rob you of the path on which your eye will penetrate to nature’s fundamental truths. So one truth kindles a light to reveal still others. 5 By habit and inclination we speak of models, originals, debts, the ‘sources’, and more often the ‘source’, that lay open before Lucretius’ eyes. But for the ancients some springs were sacred and the source of inspiration for those who drank from them.
They are not completely absent, since it is the tenuous and barely perceptible image of their tranquillity that aVords men with their remote notion of true tranquillity and ataraxia. 1203). This theme of human piety is an important part of the proem to Book 6—inevitably, for Lucretius’ argument now comes to centre on one of the greatest sources of fear and one of the grounds for human belief in the terrible gods of an angry heaven. 73–5): sed quia tute tibi placida cum pace quietos constitues magnos irarum uoluere Xuctus nec delubra deum placido cum pectore adibis .
43–7): 45 et quoniam docui mundi mortalia templa esse natiuo consistere corpore caelum, et quaecumque in eo Wunt Werique necessest, pleraque dissolui, quae restant percipe porro; quandoquidem semel insignem conscendere currum 45 And, since I have taught that the regions of the world are subject to death and that even heaven is made of corruptible matter and that all that happens in this world happens of necessity and have explained most of my subject, now learn what remains, since once I have decided to mount a chariot that carries fame .