Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (VII, 211 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110722765
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9783110722925
Serie:
Trends in classics - Supplementary volumes 117
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Disease and the (Un)Making of the World -- 2 Disease, Closure and the Sense of an Ending -- 3 Disease and the Marvellous. Epilepsy in Book 3 and 6 -- 4 From Callimachean Aesthetics to the Sublime. The Plague in Book 6 -- 5 Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index Rerum et Nominum -- Index Locorum
Inhalt:
The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with.However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem's philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product.The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning-both inside and outside the text
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110722659
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kazantzidis, George, 1979 - Lucretius on disease Berlin : De Gruyter, 2021 ISBN 9783110722659
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3110722658
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Altertumswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
Lucretius Carus, Titus v94-v55 De rerum natura
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Krankheit
DOI:
10.1515/9783110722765
Mehr zum Autor:
Kazantzidis, George 1979-
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