"How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic trad…
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"Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates about representation and the status of scientific claims, epistemological issues central to the so-called Science Wars. The book offers a stimulating…
"Rethinking Reality: Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates about representation and the status of scientific claims, epistemological issues central to the so-called Science Wars. The book offers a stimulating…
Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, R…