The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Mnemosyne Supplements: Book 294

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Markovic , Ph.D. (2006) in Classical Philology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Lecturer in Classics at Temple University, Philadelphia. He has published on Lucretius and on the rhetorical function of hyperbaton and gnome in Greek poetry. Klappentext Alleged incompatibility of Epicurusa (TM) philosophy with rhetoric has led modern scholars to isolate rhetorical procedures in Lucretiusa (TM) De rerum natura and regard them as non-Epicurean, accessory features. This study of Lucretiusa (TM) rhetorical procedures is based on a wider understanding of the term rhetoric, not limited to the genre of oratory. In a fresh discussion of the questions of provenance and the role of the most important formal procedures of exposition in De rerum natura the author argues that instead of injecting rhetorical strategies from non-Epicurean sources, Lucretius in fact intensified rhetorical elements already present in the work of Epicurus. These elements are used for the purpose of explanation, and function as cognitive and mnemonic aids for the reader.

Product details

• Authors: Markovic, D. Markovic, Daniel Markovic
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2008
• EAN: 9789004167964
• ISBN: 978-90-0-416796-4
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies