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Also strongly commended to Latin Studies collections is Professor Catto's earlier work, Lucretius: Selections From De Rerum Natura. 25) Or as the commentary in one edition of De rerum natura puts it: "Epicurus adopted a mechanistic system because he hoped by that means to eliminate fears and superstitions; and then introduced into that system an unmechanistic element, chance, in order to get rid of the blighting effects on the soul of philosophical determinism. Precisely at the time when Giorgione was painting, two centuries of debate regarding the status of the poetic art were culminating in increasingly elaborate attempts to establish the morality, civilizing benefit, and claim to truth of poetry; which centered on the reading and imitation of one of the most controversial and sensational of all ancient poetic texts: the De rerum natura of Lucretius. |
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