Narratives of pest in Virgil , Georgics III, and Lucretius, De rerum natura VI

Authors

  • Matheus Trevizam FALE-UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_66_9

Keywords:

De rerum natura VI, Georgics III, Plague, report, poetic media

Abstract

Two reports about catastrophic epidemics stand out in Roman literature. These are the report of the Athenian Plague at the end of the sixth book of Lucretius’s De rerum natura (DRN) and the Noric Plague at the end of the third book of Virgil’s Georgics. It will be our aim in this article to present, comparatively, aspects of symptomatology in the reports of both authors, considering Virgil’s frequent dialogue with Lucretius in the passage mentioned.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_66_9

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Published

2014-12-10

Issue

Vol. 66 (2014)

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