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...
| Published in: | Classical Philology Vol. 116; no. 4; pp. 623 - 635 |
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Oct2021
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| Summary: | 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 point about Lactantius' adaptation of Lucretius' famous wormwood simile, that it entails a utilization of the same polemical method that Lucretius himself employs when adopting the language and style of his philosophical opponents. |
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