Lucretius on Disease : : The Poetics of Morbidity in ›De rerum natura‹ / / George Kazantzidis.
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 a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VII, 211 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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