{"id":7111,"date":"2007-05-30T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/?p=7111"},"modified":"2007-05-30T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T14:40:37","slug":"the-gifts-of-venus-lucretius-de-rerum-natura-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/2007\/05\/30\/the-gifts-of-venus-lucretius-de-rerum-natura-11-20\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gifts of Venus (Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.1-20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucretius&#8217; poem on\u00a0nature opens with an invocation\u00a0addressed not to the Muses but to\u00a0Venus, goddess of love and sex.<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/lucretius-11-20.mp3]\n<p>Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divumque voluptas,<br \/>\nalma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa<br \/>\nquae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis<br \/>\nconcelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum<br \/>\nconcipitur visitque exortum lumina solis:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5<br \/>\nte, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli<br \/>\nadventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus<br \/>\nsummittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti<br \/>\nplacatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum.<br \/>\nnam simul ac species patefactast verna diei\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<br \/>\net reserata viget genitabilis aura Favoni,<br \/>\naeriae primum volucres te, diva, tuumque<br \/>\nsignificant initum perculsae corda tua vi.<br \/>\ninde ferae pecudes persultant pabula laeta\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15<br \/>\net rapidos tranant amnes: ita capta lepore\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14<br \/>\nte sequitur cupide quo quamque inducere pergis.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a016<br \/>\ndenique per maria ac montes fluviosque rapaces<br \/>\nfrondiferasque domos avium camposque virentes<br \/>\nomnibus incutiens blandum per pectora amorem<br \/>\nefficis ut cupide generatim saecla propagent.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucretius&#8217; poem on\u00a0nature opens with an invocation\u00a0addressed not to the Muses but to\u00a0Venus, goddess of love and sex. [audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/lucretius-11-20.mp3] Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divumque voluptas, alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-poetry-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}