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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: reading of Lucretius' De rerum natura
  name:
    name part: Fratantuono, Lee
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 505 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: Lucretius' philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the universe and, in particular, the world of nature and creation in which humanity finds its abode. This earliest surviving full scale epic poem from ancient Rome was of immense influence and significance to the development of the Latin epic tradition, and continues to challenge and haunt its readers to the present day. A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura offers a comprehensive commentary on this great work of Roman poetry and philosophy. Lee Fratantuono reveals Lucretius to be a poet with deep and abiding interest in the nature of the Roman identity as the children of both Venus (through Aeneas) and Mars (through Romulus); the consequences (both positive and negative) of descent from the immortal powers of love and war are explored in vivid epic narrative, as the poet progresses from his invocation to the mother of the children of Aeneas through to the burning funeral pyres of the plague at Athens. Lucretius' epic offers the possibility of serenity and peaceful reflection on the mysteries of the nature of the world, even as it shatters any hope of immortality through its bleak vision of post mortem oblivion. And in the process of defining what it means both to be human and Roman, Lucretius offers a horrifying vision of the perils of excessive devotion both to the gods and our fellow men, a commentary on the nature of pietas that would serve as a warning for Virgil in his later depiction of the Trojan Aeneas. --
  table of contents: Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mother of the children of Aeneas -- Sweet, on the great sea -- O, from so great a darkness -- The trackless ways of the muses -- Who is able to compose an epic -- First Athens.
  note: Lee Fratantuono.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lucretius Carus, Titus
  classification: PA6484 .F74 2015
  classification: 187
  identifier: 9781498511544
  identifier: 1498511546
  identifier: 9781498511551
  identifier: 2015008167
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150226
    record change date: 20151105230443.0
    record identifier: in00003529823
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng