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Manilius on the nature of the Universe

Alternative title:
A study of the natural-philosophical teaching of the Astronomica
Abstract:

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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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Sub department:
Classical Languages & Lit
Oxford college:
New College
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Author

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Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Sub department:
Classical Languages & Lit
Role:
Supervisor


Publication date:
2015
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Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford

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