Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius by Myrto Garani

Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius

Studies in Classics

Myrto Garani

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Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius' debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius' applause for his Presocratic predecessor's praeclara reperta (...

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