Letters, Atoms and Transfer of Meaning in De rerum natura
Daniel Marković
Abstract: In the work of Lucretius, the aspects of translation, poetic creation and philosophical inquiry are presented as three different forms of the same process.
Key words: De rerum natura, Epicurean philosophy, translation, metaphor, language, knowledge.
Kako je Klodija postala Medeja? (Cic. Cael. 18)
Dragana Dimitrijević
Key words: Quoting, Antonomasia, Metaphor, Rhetoric strategy, Audience
Bitka kod Magnezije u izveštaju Livijevom i Apijanovom
Jelena Savić
»Oruđe krepkih težaka«: Vergilijeve Georgike, knjiga I
Milica Kisic
Abstract: Being the preface to a Serbian translation of Virgil’s Georgics, Book One, this essay acts as an introduction to ancient didactic poetry in general. It presents the main characteristics of the genre and provides the reader with a short overview of didactic epic throughout Greek, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Another part deals with different readings of Virgil’s Georgics which for many years have been a source of fierce controversy. The ambiguity of the poem should be understood as a product of poet’s personal attitude as well as the result of a complex engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and above all Lucretius. The work admits both optimistic and pessimistic reading without enforcing either of them. Virgil ‘doesn’t assert anything’, he rather ‘searches and poses a question’.
Key words: Ancient didactic poetry, Virgil’s Georgics, Hesiod, Aratus, Lucretius, Ambiguity.