The note explores the parallels between Varro’s satire ‘Kosmotoryne. 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
2019
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The note explores the parallels between Varro’s satire ‘Kosmotoryne. 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 in questo prodotto:
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