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Lucretius' Personified Natura Rerum, Satire, and Ennius' Saturae
- Phoenix
- Classical Association of Canada
- Volume 72, Number 1-2, Spring-printemps/Summer-été 2018
- pp. 143-160
- 10.1353/phx.2018.0028
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
The personified Natura Rerum in Lucretius 3 is a satirist. Her speeches contain the hallmarks of satire, she anticipates guest satirists in later satura, and the personification alludes to a lost passage of Ennius' Saturae. She grants authority and satiric bite to the narrator's refutation of the fear of death.
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