Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

Name: Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
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ISBN: 9780521612661

ISBN-10: 0521612667

ISBN-13: 9780521612661

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie

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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…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.38" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Preface


Introduction




Antiquity



Lucretius and Greek philosophy




Lucretius and the Herculaneum library




Lucretius and Roman politics and history




Lucretius and previous poetic traditions




Lucretian architecture: the structure and argument of the De rerum natura




Lucretian texture: style, metre and rhetoric in the De rerum natura




Lucretius and later Latin literature in antiquity




Themes



Lucretius and the history of science




Moral and political philosophy: readings of Lucretius from Virgil to Voltaire




Lucretius and the sublime




Religion and enlightenment in the neo-Latin reception of Lucretius




Reception



Lucretius in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance: transmission and scholarship




Lucretius in the Italian Renaissance




Lucretius in early modern France




Lucretius in the English Renaissance




The English voices of Lucretius from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good




Lucretius in the European Enlightenment




Lucretius in Romantic and Victorian Britain




Lucretius and the moderns



Dateline


List of works cited


Index of main Lucretian passages discussed


General index