Barnaby Taylor

Lucretius and the Language of Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things') made a fundamental and lasting contribution to the language of Latin philosophy. In this book Barnaby Taylor offers an in-depth reconstruction of core features of Epicurean linguistic theory, and a new understanding of Lucretius' linguistic innovation and creativity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780198754909
• ISBN-10: 0198754906
• Artikelnr.: 58700995

Autorenporträt

Barnaby Taylor is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Exeter College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Nature and Culture in the Epicurean Theory of Language
2: Lucretius and Epicurus on Metaphor
3: Reading Lucretian Metaphor
4: Lucretian Etymologies
5: The Uses of Greek
6: Calques and Compounds
Conclusion