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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
… the argument advanced by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus in his De Rerum Natura, a poetic apology for Epicureanism. Milton's Protestant views set him at odds with Lucretius's central claims: that the soul is annihilated at death and that fear of higher powers should be avoided. However, …
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Lucretius and the Problem of Attention
Book 4 of Lucretius’ de rerum natura (DRN) contains the most complete Epicurean account of perception and thought to survive from antiquity. In the course of the book’s detailed discussion of psychology, Lucretius responds to a variety of philosophical challenges to his physiological account: the …
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Madness in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… 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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The critical treatment of myths in Cicero and Lucretius
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Latin and Greek, 1928.
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"The Rhetoric of ""Explanation in Lucretius' ""De Rerum Natura"
… following three chapters. Chapter One addresses Lucretius' choice of presenting Epicurus' teaching in the form of didactic epos, and examines this choice as a rhetorical move that stems from the programmatic goals set by Epicurus. Chapter Two examines the questions of how Lucretius structured his …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius’ poem De Rerum Natura and reconsiders the importance of these topics in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render Epicureanism more …
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Dealing with dvinity in De rerum natura
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 …
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Virginia Woolf & the Ontology of the Swerve
<p>This paper attempts to show how Lucretius' ontology of the swerve, or clinamen, influenced Virginia Woolf's writing. By using Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres and likeminded theorists, the idea is to not only explicate Lucretian thought, but to also succinctly incorporate it into the Woolfian …
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The Problem: The Theory of Ideas in Ancient Atomism and Gilles Deleuze
… atomism. While Deleuze's relationship to Lucretius has been almost completely ignored, De rerum natura homes in on at least one significant problem: to think of nature in the form of a problem. To be more exact, thinking of nature as a problem eventually sparks the emergence of thought …
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A History of the Diatribe From Its Origin Up to the First Century B. C. And a Study of the Influence of the Genre Upon Lucretius, Iii, 830-1094
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
… benefit, and oppose the atomistic doctrine of Lucretius. In this dissertation, I begin to examine the poem using a rhetorical analysis that draws upon the Aristotelian causes as a framework. The poem's final cause is to persuade Dissenting readers to trust and praise divine Providence and to …
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Making a third place: the science and the poetry of husbandry
… In this thesis, Virgil’s Georgics and Lucretius’ de rerum natura are used to derive a poetics of Being and of Husbandry, which applies not only to the world of poetry, but to events which underlie scientific research. Virgil’s use of verbs verifies that life’s activities are shared by …
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Meditative poetry, covenant theology, and Lucy Hutchinson's order and disorder.
… philosophy she had encountered while translating Lucretius. In Chapter Three, I argue that Theologoumena Pantodapa, Owen's major treatise on covenant theology, which Hutchinson studied closely, implicitly confronts Thomas Hobbes's contract theory by arguing that communion with God is the highest …
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Multimodal metaphors in educational animated videos /
… authors, such as Aristotle, Epicurus, and Lucretius, among others. After researching the topic, it seems that there have been studies conducted on metaphors in education, metaphors in animation and the benefits of using animation in education, however, there have been very few studies on …
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<i>Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?</i> The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the <i>Paschale carmen</i>
… use of allusion to, for example, Vergil and Lucretius while narrating Scriptural vignettes. Such a practice was continued and carried out on a large scale in Sedulius’ poem, where he (whether knowingly or not)answered Paulinus’ call for a classical poetics informed by Scripture, as is …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… a set of key names: in particular, Empedocles, Lucretius; Socrates, Protagoras; Plato, Aristotle; and Pliny, Augustine). Part II follows these traditions into the Renaissance where they intersect in the ‘books of wonder’, among which Paré’s Des monstres et prodiges (1573) is viewed to have had a …
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Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds
… brings together thinkers as diverse as Plutarch, Lucretius, Montaigne, La Mettrie, Hume, Darwin, Margaret Washburn and Kristin Andrews, who articulate and defend naturalistic approaches to cognition that do not presuppose a cognitive hierarchy with human abilities situated at the top. This …
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Deleuze and mereology: multiplicity, structure and composition
This investigation constitutes an attempt towards(1) understanding issues and problems relating to the notions of one, many, part and whole in Parmenides and Plato; (2) extracting conditions for a successful account of multiplicity and parthood;(3) surveying Deleuzian conceptions and uses of these …
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… Moreover, Ovid accomplishes this by politicizing Lucretius’s naturalistic treatment of stillness and motion. In Chapter 1, I demonstrate that Ovid inserts Lucretian conceptions of stillness and motion into his Houses of Sleep and Fama in Met. 1 and Met. 12 to generate political meanings in …