Introduction
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After a brief introduction to the central themes of the book, this chapter focuses on the passage DRN 1.136–45, considering in turn the issues of egestas linguae and rerum novitas. It considers the rhetorical topos of egestas linguae in its first-century BC context, and suggest that its fairly prominent position in the linguistic discourse of DRN should be connected to the extraordinary linguistic creativity that is on show throughout the poem. On the topic of rerum novitas the chapter seeks to identify the proem to Meleager’s Garland (as well as the Garland itself) as a salient intertext behind Lucretius’ account of his own poetic ambitions.
2019 ◽
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1911 ◽
Vol 72
(1856supp)
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pp. 76-76
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