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Oxford Readings in Lucretius
by Monica R. Gale (Editor)

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This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c. 55 BC), seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus. The articles collected in this volume explore Lucretius' poetic and argumentative technique from a variety of perspectives, and also consider the poem in relation to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and ideology of contemporary Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated.

Contents:
List of Abbreviations;
Introduction;

1. The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration;
2. The Empedoclean Opening;
3. Lucretius' Venus and Stoic Zeus;
4. Epicurus' Triumph of the Mind;
5. The Presocratics in Book 1 of Lucretius' De rerum natura;
6. Distant Views: The Imagery of Lucretius 2;
7. Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man;
8. Lucretius' Interpretation of the Plague;
9. Lucretian Conclusions;
10. The Conclusions of the Six Books of Lucretius;
11. Seeing the Invisible: A Study of Lucretius' Use of Analogy in De rerum natura;
12. Lucretius and Epic;
13. Doctus Lucretius.
14. Lucretius and Callimachus;
15. Pattern of Sound and Atomistic Theory in Lucretius;
16. The Significant Name in Lucretius;
17. Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in the De rerum natura of Lucretius;
18. Lucretius and Politics; Details of Original Publication;
    Index of Passages.

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