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Oxford Readings in Lucretius

By Monica R. Gale

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2007
ISBN
9780199260348, 0199260346
LCC
PA6484 .L85 2007
Open Library ID
OL10146269M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4807801 bytes)
Series
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Pages
452\452
Time added
2013-01-24 20:00:00

Description

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.

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