Aesthetic ethics in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius
The avowed purpose of Lucretius' poem is the ethical conversion of the reader, but ethics comes a very poor second to the physics in apparent importance within the text. This thesis argues that for Lucretius ethics is closely linked to aesthetics in the following ways: 1) ethics for Lucretius i...
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Open University
1998
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242494 |