Oxford Readings in Lucretius

by Monica R. Gale

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199260355
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/25/2007
Series:	Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Monica R. Gale is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Monica R. Gale2. The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration, Disikin Clay3. The Empedoclean Opening, David Sedley4. Lucretius' Venus and Stoic Zeus, Elizabeth Asmis5. Epicurus' Triumph of the Mind, Vinzenz Buchheit6. The Presocratics in Book 1 of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, W. J. Tatum7. Distant Views: The Imagery of Lucretius 2, Phillip De Lacy8. Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man, David J. Furley9. Lucretius' Interpretation of the Plague, H. S. Commager10. Lucretian Conclusions, Peta Fowler11. The Conclusions of the Six Books of Lucretius, Gerhard Muller12. Seeing the Invisible: A Study of Lucretius' Use of Analogy in De Rerum Natura, P. H. Schrijvers13. Lucretius and Epic, David West14. Doctus Lucretius, E. J. Kenney15. Lucretius and Callimachus, Robert D. Brown16. Pattern of Sound and Atomic Theory in Lucretius, P. Friedlander17. The Significant Name in Lucretius, Jane M. Snyder18. Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in Lucretius, Duncan Kennedy19. Lucretius and Politics, D. P. Fowler