Within the complex relationships between Roman poetry and Greek philosophy we can note some basic features, first of all the fact that philosophy is never the first issue of a Roman poet, in that it comes after literary conventions and... more
Within the complex relationships between Roman poetry and Greek philosophy we can note some basic features, first of all the fact that philosophy is never the first issue of a Roman poet, in that it comes after literary conventions and narrative exigences. As for the contents involved, there is a strong presence of Stoicism and (in the late Republic) of Empedocleanism; Epicureanism is far less important
