Lucretius' Progressive Revelation of Nature in "DRN" 1.149-502
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4959792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Solomon (0000-0002-8436-9440, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3/4 |
| Pages | 260 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4135169 |
| OpenAlex | W1994414585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
and uneven presentation in an eclectic didactic poet like Vergil or Horace, but it requires fuller explanation in a poet who treads in the footsteps of Epicurus. Volk (2002) has recently provided a welcome re-evaluation of the genre markers of didactic poetry, and her chapter on Lucretius (despite her stated misgivings as to intentional fallacy) demonstrates once and for all how important it was for the poet to set up a productive relationship with the Roman reader, construed as a possible but distrustful Epicurean convert. Epicureans were notoriously distrustful of both the emotional appeal and the communicative ambiguities of Homer's epic in particular, and they accused mythographers of contributing to humanity's insecurities and ignorance.3 As Philodemus shows in his works on rhetoric, on 1Although Anglo-American scholars appear more skeptical both of Jerome's biography and of Patin's anti-Lucrhce than their European counterparts, a widespread view remains that Lucretius' priorities are literary rather than philosophical: Kenney (1970) presents the work firmly within the genre of Hesiodic epic, analogous to Vergil's Georgics, as does Donahue (1993), who suggests that Lucretius' main inspiration was Callimachus; West (1994) sees no other aim to Lucretius' imagery than aesthetic
Revelation · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
The Norms of Nature
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Poetry and Rhetoric in Lucretius
Lucretius 1.1-49
Lucretius on Death and Anxiety
Epicurus' Scientific Method
Aeternus Lepos
Lucretius' Poem as a Simulacrum of the Rerum Natura
Lucretius and the transformation of Greek wisdom
Puns and poetry in Lucretius' De rerum natura
Satires of Rome
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature 2
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |