Abstract
This article offers a close reading of Lucretius' account of precipitation informed by its structural position at the transition point in Book VI between meteorological and terrestrial phenomena. This transition relates the subject matter of the poem to its representational and didactic strategies and signals the tension between viewing the poem as a complete system that explains everything and as subject to revision on account of the infinity of actual occurrences in nature. The reader thus becomes a participant in a still incomplete compositional process of producing a poem that perfectly represents the world.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 507-525 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | MAIA-Rivista di Letterature Classiche |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - Sep 2022 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Classics
- Literature and Literary Theory
Keywords
- Closure
- Didacticism
- Intertextuality
- Meteorology
- Simile
- Structure