The Plague of the "Peloponnesian War": The "modus tractandi" in Thucydides and Lucretius

  • Antonio Ruiz Castellanos Universidad de Cádiz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CFCL.2012.v32.n1.39646
Keywords: Plague of Athens in Thucydides and Lucretius, Threefold etiology as modus tractandi.

Abstract

I intend to see the influence of the episode of the Plague of the Peloponnesian War of Thucydides on the epilogue of the VI Book of De rerum natura of Lucretius. The Lucretian Pest fragment is not an independent but dependent as an exornatio on the etiology that he develops in vv. 6.1090-1137; this threefold etiology: a)f ) o(/tou = unde ortum sit; metabolh/ = de mutatione rei; ta\j ai)ti/aj = quae causae id effecerint, is the formula with which Thucydides (2.48.3) begins his account of the Plague. Even more, both authors also developed the Plague following the same etiology.

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Published
2012-07-18
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Ruiz Castellanos A. (2012). The Plague of the "Peloponnesian War": The "modus tractandi" in Thucydides and Lucretius. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos, 32(1), 7-34. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CFCL.2012.v32.n1.39646
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Vol. 32 No. 1 (2012)
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