Lucretius

Eulogy of a Roman Wife by Quintus Lucretius Vespillo In early Rome, women held a different social status than men. Roman wives were expected to uphold the household and bear the children of the husband. Since historians have uncovered very little about the detailed role and significance of women in a male dominanted Roman society, it makes you wonder, what was their true value. Vespillo’s The Eulogy of a Roman Wife was written as a way to pronounce the intimate relationship he shared with…

(Lucretius, V.1120) They wanted to have the fortune from the rigid foundation from the popularity and power in order to have a balanced life.(Lucretius, V.1116) In order to have a solid foundation of fortune, people intend to become a political leader. (Lucretius, V.1123) However, this decision brings the opposite outcomes because people will have more dangerous life. (Lucretius, V.1130) Lucretius states that it is better to become a subject in order…

believe it was the studious personality and obsession with learning is what Poggio spread which in fat then began to spread. The poem of Lucretius let out that pleasure could be found in reading text. The technology that was advancing during their time was a smaller influences for the change in the culture around them. The friends of Poggio spread the text of Lucretius but what they were really spreading was the beginning stages of having a hobby, and this hobby happened to be reading text.…

their country, no matter how unjust the nation’s motives may be. There is an inevitable internal conflict waiting to occur in every person who knows they need to make a personal decision that goes against the teachings of their nation or deities. In Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, as well as Antigone by Sophocles, a heavier emphasis is placed on humans and humanity rather…

Is it irrational to fear death? Lucretius believes that death is not bad for the one who has died. Imagine that a young John Doe was run over by a trolley and died. If at death, the person ceases to exist, is being dead bad for Doe? It isn’t bad for him because he is no longer here. There is no more to his story. Lucretius presents two arguments to support the view that ‘death means nothing to us’; the first argument is the standard Epicurean notion of the soul, based on their physics; the…

to them. Due to that fact that humanity will probably never know what the true answer is, one cannot help but ponder about what happens to our spirit after it leaves our body. That is exactly what Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius do in On the Nature of Things and Meditations, respectively. While Lucretius believes that our spirits are made of miniscule atoms, Marcus Aurelius believes that we are all limbs of God, striving to protect the perfection of the whole. Marcus Aurelius is a stoic, and…

eventually set free (Matthews et al, 2014). Unlike Plautus, he only created six plays. Plautus and Terence did not have any success, but two poets with different personalities and greatly influenced by Greek literature did: Lucretius and Catullus (Matthews et al, 2014). Lucretius and Catullus introduced new pieces of literature to the Romans. During the Golden Age, the theme of literature mostly consisted of small public chapels, speeches of the Roman senators, and the political and military…

It is deliberately paradoxical that the poet who dominates the pages of the Apology should be Lucretius… But Epicureanism is flatly opposed to Pyrrhonist scepticism. Far from asserting that all man’s boasted knowledge is mere opinion, it holds that the senses give Man access to infallible certainty. (Apology xxiv-xxv) Screech’s thesis is also borne out by the textual analysis – Lucretius, Democritus and Epicurus comprise 19% of the philosophical references in the Apology versus fewer than…

In the movie The Island, the final stage when they break free by revealing the truth can be assumed the success of Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta. The success that they gain can be examined with different aspects of the different philosophers’ ideas. Plato claims that one can reach the truth by knowledge of the soul. This theory can be observed when Lincoln has flashbacks and knows already how to survive in the real world. These scenes may also refer to Plato’s Theory of Recollection…

a search for truth. In the classical era, the existence of gods was actively debated both among philosophers and theologians, and opposition to superstition arose consequently. The poem De rerum natura, written by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius further developed the opposition to superstition. Cicero’s work…