Nunc, tum, nuper : Lucrèce et l’histoire

Abstract

Does Lucretius develop a conception of history, either as a theory of progress or as a theory of decadence? In fact, the passages where he talks about the past periods of Nature and successive human inventions are rather a reflection on the present and on the series of facts, signs and monuments that now affect our bodies.

Keywords

• history
• body
• past and present
• materialism
• Epicureanism
• language