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The Cambridge companion to Lucretius / edited by Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie.
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Book
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English
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1st ed.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
©2007
Description
xiv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
PA6484 .C33 2007
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Subject(s)
Didactic poetry, Latin
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History and criticism
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Philosophy, Ancient, in literature
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Lucretius Carus, Titus
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De rerum natura
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Gillespie, Stuart, 1958-
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Editor
Hardie, Philip R.
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Series
Cambridge companions to literature
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Summary note
"Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, philosophy and science discuss the poem in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary text and as a vehicle for progressive ideas. The Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Lucretius, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of classical antiquity and its reception. It is completely accessible to the reader who has only read Lucretius in translation."--Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and indexes.
Contents
pt. 1. Antiquity. Lucretius and Greek philosophy / James Warren
Lucretius and the Herculaneum library / Dirk Obbink
Lucretius and Roman politics and history / Alessandro Schiesaro
Lucretius and previous poetic traditions / Monica Gale
Lucretian architecture : the structure and argument of the De rerum natura / Joseph Farrell
Lucretian texture : style, metre and rhetoric in the De rerum natura / E. J. Kenney
Lucretius and later Latin literature in antiquity / Philip Hardie
pt. 2. Themes. Lucretius and the history of science / Monte Johnson and Catherine Wilson
Moral and political philosophy : reading of Lucretius from Virgil to Voltaire / Reid Barbour
Lucretius and the sublime / James I. Porter
Religion and enlightenment in the neo-Latin reception of Lucretius / Yasmin Haskell
pt. 3. Reception. Lucretius in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance : transmission and scholarship / Michael Reeve
Lucretius in the Italian Renaissance / Valentina Prosperi
Lucretius in early modern France / Philip Ford
Lucretius in the English Renaissance / Stuart Gillespie
The English voices of Lucretius from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good / David Hopkins
Lucretius in the European Enlightenment / Eric Baker
Lucretius in Romantic and Victorian Britain / Martin Priestman
Lucretius and the moderns / Stuart Gillespie and Donald Mackenzie.
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Companion to Lucretius
ISBN
9780521848015 ((hardback))
0521848016 ((hardback))
9780521612661 ((paperback))
0521612667 ((paperback))
LCCN
2008295740
OCLC
154682247
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