From Epos to Cosmos: Lucretius, Ovid, and the Poetics of Segmentation

Abstract

Abstract Again, what after all is the power which explores what is hidden, which is called discovery and research? Do you think it was compounded from this earthy, mortal, and transitory nature, for example, the man who first gave names to things, a feat which Pythagoras thought required outstanding wisdom, or who first gathered together mankind, hitherto dispersed, and called it to a communal way of life, or who brought within the limits of only a few written signs the sounds of speech which seemed infinite, or who marked the courses, advances, and pauses of the wandering stars?

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