Hamlet and Lucretian Anxiety
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DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2021.1981991
Abstract: Lucretius’s poem De rerum natura articulates a philosophy meant to help its adherents avoid anxiety and inner turmoil. Although Shakespeare was acquainted with and influenced by Lucretius, scholarship has neglected this influence upon Hamlet, a… read more here.
Keywords: anxiety; philosophy; lucretius; lucretian anxiety ... See more keywords
Burning Lucretius: On Ficino's Lost Commentary
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DOI: 10.1353/sip.2018.0010
Abstract: Abstract:Sometime in the late 1450s the Platonic philosopher Marsilio Ficino wrote a "little commentary" on Lucretius's De rerum natura—a commentary he said he eventually burned as Plato once burned his own juvenilia. Scholars have read… read more here.
Keywords: ficino lost; burning lucretius; lucretius ficino; ficino ... See more keywords