Lucretius Research Articles

Réminiscences épicuriennes dans les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit de Crébillon

This article discusses nine themes in Crébillon's Égarements (1736-38) which confirm the impression that it conveys many philosophemes taken from Epicurus and Lucretius : education and manners pervert nature ; imagination leads to excesses such as wordly victory or jealousy ; amorous passion, of two sorts, is linked to instinct, as feeling is desire added to pathos ; wordly agitation and its desires aim at forgetting our interior boredom ; passion is enchantment and blindness and its occasional cause leads to unease and obsession ; the notion of the right moment transfers the Greek notion of kairos to the sexual domain ; the Platonic system is absurd as only pleasure is real ; self-interest is the main motive for human actions ; in the world the abuse of words replaces thought. We see that Crébillon's work contains a coherent philosophy, in which sexuality is the normal sanction for what novelists usually treated as a more or less impure feeling.

Cabanis, Destutt de Tracy, Volney : science de l'homme et épicurisme

This article discusses nine themes in Crébillon's Égarements (1736-38) which confirm the impression that it conveys many philosophemes taken from Epicurus and Lucretius : education and manners pervert nature ; imagination leads to excesses such as wordly victory or jealousy ; amorous passion, of two sorts, is linked to instinct, as feeling is desire added to pathos ; wordly agitation and its desires aim at forgetting our interior boredom ; passion is enchantment and blindness and its occasional cause leads to unease and obsession ; the notion of the right moment transfers the Greek notion of kairos to the sexual domain ; the Platonic system is absurd as only pleasure is real ; self-interest is the main motive for human actions ; in the world the abuse of words replaces thought. We see that Crébillon's work contains a coherent philosophy, in which sexuality is the normal sanction for what novelists usually treated as a more or less impure feeling.

Tennyson's Lucretius

Tennyson's Lucretius

Lucretius, Milton, and “L'Allegro”

Lucretius, Milton, and “L'Allegro”

Intertextuality and Immortality: Ovid, Pythagoras and Lucretius in Metamorphoses 15

Intertextuality and Immortality: Ovid, Pythagoras and Lucretius in Metamorphoses 15

The atomistic view of heat in Lucretius

Une analyse du poeme de Lucrece intitule De Rerum Natura est presentee ici. On y decouvre une conception atomiste de la chaleur, une perception relativement visionnaire a une epoque ou la chaleur etait percue comme une intervention divine.

Epicurus and Lucretius on Saving Agency

Epicurus and Lucretius on Saving Agency

Lucretius and the End of the World

Lucretius and the End of the World

Prize Essay: Bodies and Boundaries: Thinking with Lucretius from Cowley to Thomson

Prize Essay: Bodies and Boundaries: Thinking with Lucretius from Cowley to Thomson

Prize essay. Bodies and boundaries. Thinking with Lucretius from Cowley to Thomson

Prize essay. Bodies and boundaries. Thinking with Lucretius from Cowley to Thomson

Myth and Poetry in Lucretius

Myth and Poetry in Lucretius

Transfigured plight

Our environment is complex, but it is understandable through rational investigation, and it is not to be feared. So wrote Titus Lucretius Carus of the nature of things some thirty human lifetimes ago—not so long, really. About species evolution Lucretius thought much, guessed well, and worried little. About microparasitic evolution he knew nothing. Would he have feared it? Should we fear it now?

Painting and Poetry: Titillation and Translation — Diderot confronts Lucretius's Invocation to Venus

Painting and Poetry: Titillation and Translation — Diderot confronts Lucretius's Invocation to Venus

Myth and Poetry in Lucretius

Myth and Poetry in Lucretius

An answer to Lucretius' symmetry argument against the fear of death

L'A. propose une refutation du celebre argument epicurien contre la crainte de la mort, qui ne doit «rien etre pour nous»: quand nous sommes, elle n'est pas, et quand elle est, nous ne sommes plus. L'A. utilise l'idee de privation de vie pour relever la valeur legitimement rationnelle de cette crainte

Lucretius and nature's monsters

Lucretius and nature's monsters

Lucretius on Death and Anxiety

Lucretius on Death and Anxiety

Pontano ‘s use of the didactic genre: rhetoric, irony and the manipulation of Lucretius in Urania

Renaissance StudiesVolume 5, Issue 3 p. 250-262 Pontano ‘s use of the didactic genre: rhetoric, irony and the manipulation of Lucretius in Urania Charlotte Goddard, Charlotte Goddard Corpus Christi College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author Charlotte Goddard, Charlotte Goddard Corpus Christi College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1991 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.1991.tb00239.xCitations: 4Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume5, Issue3September 1991Pages 250-262 RelatedInformation

Lucretius and the Poetry of Argument

Lucretius and the Poetry of Argument

Pontano's Use of the Didactic Genre: Rhetoric, Irony and the Manipulation of Lucretius in Urania

Pontano's Use of the Didactic Genre: Rhetoric, Irony and the Manipulation of Lucretius in Urania