Thesis
Manilius on the nature of the Universe
- Alternative title:
- A study of the natural-philosophical teaching of the Astronomica
- Abstract:
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The thesis has two aims. The first is to show that a more charitable approach to Manilius, such as Lucretian scholarship has exhibited in recent decades, yields a wealth of exciting discoveries that earlier scholarship has not thought to look for. The thesis' contributions to this project centre on three aspects of the poem:
(I) the sophistication of its didactic techniques, which draw and build on various predecessors in the tradition of didactic poetry
(II) its cosmological, physic...
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+ Rheinhardt, T
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- Classics Faculty
- Sub department:
- Classical Languages & Lit
- Role:
- Supervisor
- Publication date:
- 2015
- DOI:
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
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ora:12495
- Deposit date:
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2016-06-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Colborn, R
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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