Lactantius' Adaptation and Rejection of Lucretius De rerum natura 1.936–50.

A growing number of scholars in recent decades have begun to appreciate Lactantius' interaction with Lucretius on the level not only of language and poetics, but one which also reveals a careful and profound study of the Roman poet's epic. The present discussion addresses the hitherto unnoticed poin...

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Publicado en:Classical Philology Vol. 116; no. 4; pp. 623 - 635
Autor principal: Keil, Matthew A.
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Publicado: University of Chicago Press Oct2021
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        Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320
        Lucretius Carus, Titus, ca. 99 B.C.-55 B.C.
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