wherein one compares theories
from anatomy and assessment to strains
little has yet been done to investigate the particular strategies by which the poet conveys the impression of gods attending a live
subject to the ultimate authority of the emperor
which in the opinion of many scholars derives ultimately from the lost historian Clearchus of
Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France Friere wherein one compares theoriesIn the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the renewed reading of the Bible in the wake of the Reformation, a