By Myrto Garani
ISBN-10: 0415988497
ISBN-13: 9780415988490
Despite the final scholarly consensus approximately Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles because the father of the style of cosmological didactic epic, there's a significant confrontation concerning Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). within the current learn, Garani means that by means of praising Empedocles’ discoveries, Lucretius issues to his predecessor’s epistemological tools of inquiry in regards to the unseen, equipment upon which he himself attracts largely and creatively complements. during this approach, he effectively penetrates into the invisible wildlife, deciphers its secrets and techniques, and therefore liberates his scholar from superstitious fears approximately demise and actual phenomena. To justify this proposition, Garani undertakes a scientific research of Lucretius’ integration of Empedocles’ tools of making analogies within the type of literary units -- personifications, similes, and metaphors -- and demonstrates that his intertextual engagement with Empedocles’ philosophical poem is direct and in depth at either the poetic and the philosophical degrees.
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