Atomism in the Aeneid Physics Politics and Cosmological Disorder 1st edition by Matthew Gorey 0197518761 9780197518762

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ISBN-10 :  0197518761 

ISBN-13 :  9780197518762

Author : Matthew M. Gorey 

Scholars have long recognized Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil’s engagement with Epicurean philosophy. In Atomism in the Aeneid, Matthew M. Gorey investigates that engagement and argues that atomic imagery functions as a metaphor for cosmic and political disorder in Virgil’s epic, associating the enemies of Aeneas and of Rome’s imperial destiny with the haphazard, purposeless chaos of Epicurean atoms in the void. While nearly all of Virgil’s allusions to atomism are constructed from Lucretian intertextual material, Gorey shows how the poet’s negative reception of atomism draws upon a long and popular tradition of anti-atomist discourse in Greek philosophy that metaphorically likened the non-teleological cosmology of atomism to civic disorder and mob rule. By situating Virgil’s atomic allusions within the tradition of philosophical opposition to Epicurean physics, Atomism in the Aeneid illustrates the deeply ideological nature of his engagement with Lucretius.

Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder 1st Table of contents:

I.1 Global Approaches to Virgil’s Lucretian Intertexts
I.1.1 Genre, Style, and Tone
I.1.2 The “Epicurean Aeneid”
I.1.3 Polemical Allusion
I.1.4 Polemical Allusion: A Synthesis
I.2 Philosophical Allegory in the Aeneid
I.2.1 Why Epicureanism?
I.2.2 Static versus Dynamic Allegory
1. Characterizations of Epicurean Atomism
1.1 Early Atomism: Democritean Origins and Epicurean Contributions
1.2 Aristotle
1.3 Stoics and Skeptics: The Ciceronian Evidence
1.3.1 Stoic Critiques of Atomism in Cicero
1.3.2 Academic Critiques of Atomism in Cicero
1.4 Lucretian Atomism
1.5 Conclusion
2. Trojans under the Influence of Atomism (Epic Winners)
2.1 The Atomic Opening (Nature sine Numine)
2.2 Atomic Disasters
2.3 Atomic Indecision
2.4 Conclusion
3. Non-Trojans under the Influence of Atomism (Epic Losers)
3.1 Atomistic Dido
3.2 Italians and the Atomic Battlefield
3.3 Turnus and the Phantom Aeneas
3.4 Atomistic Mezentius
3.5 Conclusion
4. Turnus and the End of the Epicurean World
4.1 Turnus’ Atomic Attack
4.2 Turnus, Aeneas, and the Atomic Battlefield
4.3 Turnus’ Atomic Attack, Revisited
4.4 The Death of Turnus
4.5 Conclusion
5. Atomism and the Worldview of the Aeneid
5.1 Virgil on The Nature of Things (Again)
5.2 Biographical Considerations
5.3 Directions for Further Study

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