The Cambridge companion to Lucretius / edited by Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge companions to literaturePublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: xiv, 365 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521848015 (hbk)
  • 0521848016 (hbk)
  • 9780521612661 (pbk.)
  • 0521612667 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Companion to Lucretius
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 187 22
LOC classification:
  • PA6484 .C33 2007
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and indexes.

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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