Lovers in Arms: Empedoclean Love and Strife in Lucretius and the Elegists
This article argues that Lucretius’ ‘tableau’ of Mars and Venus at the opening of the De rerum natura (DRN 1.29-43) imparts to elegy’s fixation with love and war a quasi-Empedoclean outlook on the creative and destructive forces that regulate the world and human life. In the context of an age that c...
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Université Lille-3
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Dictynna |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/1080 |