The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Stuart Gillespie & Philip Hardie (eds.)
Cambridge University Press (2007)
Abstract
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 translationReprint years
2010, 2012
Call number
PA6484.C33 2007
ISBN(s)
9780521612661 9781139001687 0521848016 0521612667 9781139797931 9780521848015
My notes
Chapters
pt. 3. Reception. Lucretius in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance : transmission and scholarship.Michael Reeve
Adkins, AWH (1977)'Lucretius 1.16–139 and the problems of writing versus Latini', Phoenix 31: 145–58. Adler, E.(2003) Vergil's Empire. Political Thought in the Aeneid. Lanham, Md. and Oxford. Aicher, PJ (1992)'Lucretian revisions of Homer', Classical Journal 87: 139–58. [REVIEW]Cari de Rerum Natura Libri Sex
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