Lucretius on Death and Anxiety. Poetry and Philosophy in De Rerum Natura. - SEGAL, Ch.,

Poetry and Philosophy in de RERUM NATURA

KORTE INHOUD

?The book is most persuasive as an account of Lucretius? imagery rather than of his argumentative and consolatory techniques, and in this it is very impressive indeed. In particular S. ranges most innovatively over the poetry of finitude and infinity; in ch. 4 the constricting and dark fear of the bottomless ocean of non-being is seen in inverse relationship to the liberation afforded by the exhilarating and radiant vision of the infinity of the epicurean universe. (?) In ch. 5 the interchangeability of microcosm and macrocosm provides the basis for an exploration of the imagery of constructing and destroying boundaries of the universe, the city, and the body, culminating in the violation by the plague of the walls of Athens and of the bodily integrity of its inhabitants at the end of the poem. Here S. brings out full for the first time one of the central images of the poem; the Virgilian might ponder on the implications of this for images of bounding and penetration in the ?Aeneid?. The next two chapters, 6 ...
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1990Uitgever: Princeton University Press292 paginasISBN-10: 0691601879ISBN-13: 9780691601878

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