Virgil on the Nature of Things : The Georgics, Lucretius And the Didactic Tra…
Virgil on the Nature of Things : The Georgics, Lucretius And the Didactic Tradition, Paperback by Gale, Monica R., ISBN 0521028965, ISBN-13 9780521028967, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Virgil’s agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores […]
Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Traditi
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan?. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into […]
Oxford Readings in Lucretius by Monica R. Gale (English) Paperback Book
Lucretius’ philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus.
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius by Monica R. Gale (English) Paperback Book
“What makes her [Gale] discussion exciting, at least for this reader, is the sense that this complex of ideas remains vital after two millennia; it is far more robust and viable than notions of aestheticism, art for art’s sake, or the autonomous text.”.
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius by Monica R. Gale (English) Hardcover Book
“What makes her [Gale] discussion exciting, at least for this reader, is the sense that this complex of ideas remains vital after two millennia; it is far more robust and viable than notions of aestheticism, art for art’s sake, or the autonomous text.”.
Catullus: Volume 51 by Monica R. Gale Paperback Book
Catullus is amongst the most widely read of Roman authors at school and university, but courses and textbooks have traditionally concentrated on a relatively limited range of poems. Preface Monica R. Gale; Abbreviations; 1.
Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Hardcover by Gale, Monica R. (EDT); Sc…
Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Hardcover by Gale, Monica R. (EDT); Scourfield, J. H. D. (EDT), ISBN 1107027144, ISBN-13 9781107027145, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Oxford Readings in Lucretius by Monica R. Gale (English) Hardcover Book
Lucretius’ philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus.
Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Hardcover by Gale, Monica R. (EDT); Sc…
Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Hardcover by Gale, Monica R. (EDT); Scourfield, J. H. D. (EDT), ISBN 1107027144, ISBN-13 9781107027145, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Traditi
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan?. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into […]