J d minyard (6 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The crisis Rome experienced in the last decades of the Republic was intellectual as well as political, social and military. This crisis was marked by conflicts over values and a growing dichotomy between words and things, as a result of which the key words of the Roman tradition lost their anchor in the inherited, commonly-held percepetion of reality known as the mos maiorum. The crisis was therefore also one of the Latin language itself. The monograph explores this thesis in discussions of the background and character of Roman intellectual history, the nature of the mos maiorum, the relationship of the Late Republic to the Mediterranean world, the roles of Julius Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, and Lucretius in the crisis, and its Augustan and later consequences. The major portion of the discussion is devoted to Lucretius, because the De Rerum Natura is the clearest example of the extent and nature of the crisis, from which it took its origin and gained its form and purpose. A principal goal of the essay is to relate Lucretius to the structure of Roman literary and intellectual history. It finds the explanation for his work in the nature of that history and the characteristic Roman modes and categories of thought rather than in the general history fo Greek philosophy. It also offers a new explanation of the relationshiop of the authors of the Late Republic to each other. In so doing, it indicates the foundation for a new history of Roman literature and a new conception of the reality and importance of the intellectual history of Rome.…

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87 S. Originalbroschur (Softcover). Mnemosyne. Suppl. 90. Sehr sauberes ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar, ohne Benutzungsspuren. Sprache: en.

4to. 87 pp. Encuadernación editorial. Muy buen estado.

Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1978. XV,184p. Sewn. Series: Hermes, Einzelschriften, Heft 39. Nice copy. 'by far the larger part of the work is taken up with an analysis of repeated phrases, lines, and passages considerd as formulas, and with two appendies, one listing 'phrase formulas' acoording to position in the verse, the other repeated whole lines and passages. (.) The appendices are useful, but not nearly so much now that we have a concordance (.). Much more interesting are three short chapters discussing the implications of this research and introducing us to the mode and value of the title. Very briefly, Minyard accepts five 'modes of formal discourse', analystical, rhetorical, lyrical, dramatical, and narrative. These are assumed to be eternal verities independent of genre and culture. Unless we get the mode of the work right, we cannot judge it by the right system of values - we look for the wrong things. It is the author's contention that critics have done just this in the case of Lucretius. The work is not analytical - its arguments are 'crude almost to the point of childishness' (p.85), nor rhetorical - it is not out to persuade, nor lyrical - which requires a greater concentration of language than Lucretius possesses; it is essentially narrative, a narrative about the worrld. This is obviously an interesting, unusual restrictive. (.) But (.) it is language which puts us into touch with ideas, and ideas which are the depths of poetry; ultimately Lucretius has to be appriciated as a unity if we are to 'persentire' all his aspects.' (D.P. FOWLER and P.G. FOWLER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1980, pp.18-20).…