The aim of this article is to focus on the reception of Greek science in republican Rome and to give some exemples of textual transmission. Cicero and Lucretius are considered as witnesses, the first for the attention he gave to scientific knowledge, the second for the defense of a materialistic representation of reality, both for the linguistic skills such a feat required.

Percorsi e fortuna della scienza greca nella Roma repubblicana

Maria Stefania Montecalvo
2018-01-01

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The aim of this article is to focus on the reception of Greek science in republican Rome and to give some exemples of textual transmission. Cicero and Lucretius are considered as witnesses, the first for the attention he gave to scientific knowledge, the second for the defense of a materialistic representation of reality, both for the linguistic skills such a feat required.
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