Lucretius and the Language of Nature
Lucretius and the Language of Nature (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Barnaby Taylor
2020 | ISBN: 0198754906 | English | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB
2020 | ISBN: 0198754906 | English | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things'), written in the middle of the first century BC, made a fundamental and lasting contribution to the language of Latin philosophy. The style of De Rerum Natura is like nothing else in extant Latin: at once archaic and modern, Romanizing and Hellenizing, intimate and sublime, it draws on multiple literary genres and linguistic registers. This book offers a study of Lucretius' linguistic innovation and creativity.