The rhetoric of explanation in Lucretius' De rerum natura /
Alleged incompatibility of Epicurus' philosophy with rhetoric has led modern scholars to isolate rhetorical procedures in Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura" and regard them as non-Epicurean, accessory features. This study of Lucretius' rhetorical procedures is based on a wider und...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
294. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. From Epicurus To Lucretius
- Ch. 1. Epas and Physis
- Epicurean Education and Traditional Education
- Hellenistic Literary Education
- Epicurean Education
- Lucretius as a Teacher
- DRN as an Educational Poem
- The Aim of DRN
- Ch. 2. A Linear Universe
- The Poem
- Individual Books
- Argumentative Sections
- The Organizational Principles of DRN
- Ch. 3. Arguments and Ornaments
- Arguments from Analogy
- Arguments from Contradiction
- Arguments from Etymology
- Arguments from Definition
- Arguments from Cause and Effect
- Arguments from Comparison
- Loci and the Composition of DRN
- Outlook. The Rhetoric of Explanation in DRN.