Lucretius and the Diatribe Against the Fear of Death
Title | Lucretius and the Diatribe Against the Fear of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Bárbara Price Wallach |
Publisher | Brill Archive |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004045644 |
Lucretius and the Diatribe against the Fear of Death
Title | Lucretius and the Diatribe against the Fear of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Price Wallach |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004327495 |
Lucretius and the Diatribe Against the Fear of Death
Title | Lucretius and the Diatribe Against the Fear of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Prince Wallach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | 9789004045644 |
Lucretius on Death and Anxiety
Title | Lucretius on Death and Anxiety PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Segal |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1400861292 |
In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Lucretius: a Poem Against the Fear of Death. With an Ode in (To the Pious) Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Ann Killigrew, Etc. [The First Translated by Dryden from “De Rerum Natura” Bk. 3, the Second Written by John Dryden, Here Anonymous.]
Title | Lucretius: a Poem Against the Fear of Death. With an Ode in (To the Pious) Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Ann Killigrew, Etc. [The First Translated by Dryden from “De Rerum Natura” Bk. 3, the Second Written by John Dryden, Here Anonymous.] PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1709 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Treasures of Lucretius
Title | Treasures of Lucretius PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Didactic poetry, Latin |
ISBN |
Lucretius
Title | Lucretius PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Schindler |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2022-12-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004539042 |
This volume provides an introduction to Lucretius’ De rerum natura, the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem, and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.