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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marković, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
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.