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dc.contributor.advisor | Cunningham, J.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Browne, Wheelwright John | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:49:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:49:22Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-07-04 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1967-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/5068 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 6090 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2085712 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9997 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>This thesis argues that the Epicureans did not simply repeat the ipsa dicta of Epicurus, but developed new areas of study - (e.g., logic, rhetoric) of which Epicurus did not approve. This transmuted Epicureanism influenced the Romans of the late Republic and some of its ideas appear in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.</p> <p>Chapter 1 offers a brief historical sketch of some Epicureans of the late Republic and suggests that there was a peculiarly Roman Epicureanism as evidenced by their lives and actions. Chapter 2 discusses changes in Epicurean attitudes due to the influence of other schools, and the desire to "popularize" Epicureanism among the Romans. Chapter 3 outlines the evidence for the existence of Epicurean works in Latin other than the De Rerum Natura. Chapter 4 deals with Lucretius' debt to the early Epicureans, the later Epicureans and his Roman milieu.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity | en_US |
dc.subject | Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity | en_US |
dc.title | Roman Epicureanism and Lucretius | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Latin | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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