336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests that by praising Empedocles’ discoveries, Lucretius points to his predecessor’s epistemological... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One: Personification
Chapter Two: Similes
Chapter Three: Metaphors
Epilogue
Notes
List of Translations
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Myrto Garani
