L’ATOMO DI LUCREZIO

Authors

  • Stefano Maso Università Ca’ Foscari – Venezia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19283/lph-20164.482

Keywords:

Atom, Image, Indivisibility, Lucretius, Solidity

Abstract

Lucretius never uses the word atomus. There are no serious prosodic obstacles in inserting it into the hexameter; but, except for a senarius of Lucilius, atomus is testified only in seven late evidences of the whole Latin poetry. Perhaps Lucretius considers the mechanical character of indivisibility not a priority: atoms are indivisible because of their ‘continuous solidity’ (their ontological simplicitas/soliditas), and not vice versa

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Published

01.07.2016

How to Cite

Maso, S. (2016). L’ATOMO DI LUCREZIO. Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas, (4). https://doi.org/10.19283/lph-20164.482

Issue

No. 4 (2016): Lexicon Philosophicum

Section

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