The note explores the parallels between Varro’s satire ‘Kos-motoryne. on the destruction of the world’, and Lucretius’ de rerum natura. although the relative dating of the two texts is controversial, they both appear to share a concern for eschatology and its connection with moral and political degeneration.
Varro and Lucretius on the end of the world / Schiesaro, Alessandro. - In: RIVISTA DI FILOLOGIA E DI ISTRUZIONE CLASSICA. - ISSN 0035-6220. - 147:2(2019), pp. 352-356.
Varro and Lucretius on the end of the world
Alessandro Schiesaro
2019
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The note explores the parallels between Varro’s satire ‘Kos-motoryne. on the destruction of the world’, and Lucretius’ de rerum natura. although the relative dating of the two texts is controversial, they both appear to share a concern for eschatology and its connection with moral and political degeneration.File allegati a questo prodotto
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