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100 1 $aGale, Monica$q(Monica R.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93036058
245 10 $aMyth and poetry in Lucretius /$cMonica Gale.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
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300 $axiv, 260 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $aCambridge classical studies
500 $aRevision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Cambridge, 1991.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 232-245) and index.
505 0 $a1. The philosophical background: Greek myth and mythology. The criticism of myth in antiquity. Allegory and allegorism. Lucretius and the mythological tradition. Personification and allegory in the De Rerum Natura. Impiety and irrationality. Parmenides and Empedocles -- Appendix 1: Euhemerism -- Appendix 2: Allegory in art -- 2. The cultural background: myth and belief in late Republican Rome. Myth and theology. Myth and history -- 3. The literary background: the De Rerum Natura as epic -- 4. Lucretius' theory of myth. The origins of myth. Avia Pieridum loca: poetry and truth -- 5. Latent myth in the De Rerum Natura. Zoogony and Kulturgeschichte (5.783-1457). Other examples of latent myth. The deification of Epicurus -- 6. The proem and the plague -- Conclusion: myth as a poetic and philosophical tool.
520 $aThe employment of mythological language and imagery by an Epicurean poet - a professed adherent of a system which was not only materialist, but overtly hostile to myth and poetry - is highly paradoxical. This apparent contradiction has often been ascribed to a conflict in the poet's personality, between reason and intellect, or to a desire to enliven his philosophical material with attractive mythological digressions.
520 8 $aThis book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology, by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views. Dr Gale suggests that Lucretius was not only aware of the tension between his two roles as philosopher and poet, but attempted to resolve it by developing his own, Epicurean poetic, together with a bold and innovative theory of the origins and meaning of myth
520 8 $a. This book will be of interest to all classical scholars but especially to those concerned with Lucretius and with ancient philosophy.
600 10 $aLucretius Carus, Titus.$tDe rerum natura.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81120503
600 10 $aLucretius Carus, Titus$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aMythology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089371
650 0 $aMythology, Classical, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006727
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Ancient, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007798
650 0 $aMyth in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089366
830 0 $aCambridge classical studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42036318
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