Empedocles Redivivus Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius Studies in Classics 1st Edition by Myrto Garani 0415988497 9780415988490

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Author: Myrto Garani

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 methods of inquiry concerning the unseen, methods upon which he himself draws extensively and creatively enhances. In this way, he successfully penetrates into the invisible natural world, deciphers its secrets, and thus liberates his pupil from superstitious fears about death and physical phenomena. To justify this proposition, Garani undertakes a systematic analysis of Lucretius’ integration of Empedocles’ methods of creating analogies in the form of literary devices — personifications, similes, and metaphors — and demonstrates that his intertextual engagement with Empedocles’ philosophical poem is direct and intensive at both the poetic and the philosophical levels.

Empedocles Redivivus Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius Studies in Classics 1st Table of contents:

1.1. EMPEDOCLES’ CARMINA AND PRAECLARA REPERTA

1.2. EMPEDOCLES’ AND LUCRETIUS’ SCIENTIFIC METHOD: THINKING BY ANALOGY

1.3. EMPEDOCLES, ENNIUS AND LUCRETIUS

CHAPTER ONE: PERSONIFICATION

2.1. INTRODUCTION

2.2. PERSONIFICATION OF NATURAL FORCES AND MINIMAL ENTITIES

2.3. MUNDUS AS MAKRANTHROPOS

2.4. TURNING THE EARTH INTO A WOMAN

2.5. CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER TWO: SIMILES

3.1. INTRODUCTION

3.2. EPIC FORM

3.3. POETRY VERSUS SCIENCE

3.4. VARIOUS TYPES OF SIMILES

3.5. CONCLUSIONS

CHAPTER THREE: METAPHORS

4.1. INTRODUCTION

4.2. PIECING TOGETHER PRIMARY ELEMENTS: TECHNOLOGICAL METAPHORS FOR ELEMENTARY MIXTURE (FITTING TOGETHER, BINDING, WEAVING)

4.3. THE “FILLING OR EMPTYING THE ATOMIC CONTAINER” METAPHOR

4.4. “THE FLOWING WATER” METAPHOR

4.5. “SQUEEZING OUT THE SPONGE” METAPHOR

4.6. CONCLUSIONS

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