Images
“simulacra/idols of things”
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 19 anchored passages
images · effigies · films · idol-films · idols · innumerability of atoms · likenesses · streaming visions · the theory of images
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
The Epicurean doctrine that thin films or images (eidola) emanate from bodies and strike the mind, explaining perception including the perception of gods.
Grant that there are images by which our minds are struck:
And what of the fact that different images of the same man fall upon mine, others upon yours?
and that its vision is such as to be discerned by likeness and passage, and that the accession of like things from the infinite bodies never fails, and that from this it comes about that our mind, fixed upon these, deems that nature blessed and everlasting.
De Rerum Natura
Lucretius's central Epicurean doctrine that thin films (simulacra) constantly shed from the surfaces of things, or spontaneously formed in the air, fly through space and strike the senses, producing sight, dreams, mirror reflections, and mental apparitions.
An image.
but, when images
Rightly a speedy.