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Vox Naturae: The Myth of Animal Nature in the Latin Roman Republic

Fabio Tutrone

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Stoicismlate Roman republicRoman literature and philosophyCiceroVarroSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura LatinaEpicureanismcultural representation of animalanthropology of the ancient world.Lucretiucultural representation of animals; late Roman republic; Sallust; Cicero; Lucretius; Varro; Roman literature and philosophy; Stoicism; Epicureanism; New Academy; anthropology of the ancient world.SallustNew Academy

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The paper examines the representation of animals as embodiment of nature in the culture of the late Roman republic. By discussing a selection of passages from Sallust, Cicero and Lucretius in conjunction with other Greek and Latin sources, the paper shows that the typically Western myth of 'animal nature' - the cultural belief that animal mirror a perennial state of nature, as opposed to human society - played a very important role in the ethical debate of the first century BC and took in this period a form which was bound to influence the centuries to come.

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2016-01-01
http://hdl.handle.net/10447/208720