The disease of love in Lucretius and Catullus
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Disease of Love. Medicine. Lucretius. Catullus.Abstract
The present article points out that both Lucretius and Catullus understand passionate love as an illness, as they coincide in the descriptions of such a disease in all its stages. What then is it that separates them? Where is the confrontation between them? The answer lies in the attitude that each one adopts in the face of illness. While Lucretius considers passionate love to be something reprehensible and to be avoided by listening to reason, Catullus, although aware of the negative effects of this type of love, cannot avoid surrendering to it.
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