Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book Iii - Couverture souple

Lucretius, .

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521173892 ISBN 13 : 9780521173896

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it had done before its birth. Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state of ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based. To present this case Lucretius deploys the full range of poetic and rhetorical registers, soberly prohibitive, artfully decorative or passionately emotive as best suits his argument, reinforcing it with vivid and compelling imagery. This new edition has been completely revised, with a considerably enlarged Commentary and a new supplementary introduction taking account of the great amount of new scholarship of the last forty years.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

E. J. Kenney is Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521173892
• ISBN 13: 9780521173896
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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