商品簡介
Roman poet Lucretius (95-55 BC) is often accused of introducing inappropriate rhetoric into his explication of Epicurean physics as an epic poem. Markovic (classics, Temple U., Philadelphia) disagrees. Taking a broader definition of rhetoric, he argues that the poet in fact intensified rhetorical elements already present in the work of Epicurus, systematically returning them to their ancestral forms found in the language of epic poetry. Among his topics are Epicurean education and traditional education, the organizational principles of the poem, arguments from analogy and comparison, and the poem's rhetoric of explanation. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
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.
