Lucretius and His Intellectual Background
Published in December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-444-85818-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains a collection of papers on the philosophical and cultural background of Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura". The authors, an international team of specialists, address such general questions as how Lucretius' poem relates to the Epicurean tradition, to other philosophical schools and to contemporary Roman intellectual life. In addition, a number of case studies are presented which discuss the background of particular passages in Lucretius' poem.
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Language
English
French
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-444-85818-4 (9780444858184)
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Content
How Lucretius composed the De rerum natura (D. Sedley). Lucrece dans l'histoire de l'epicurisme. Quelques reflexions (G. Arrighetti). Lucrece et les epicuriens de campanie (T. Dorandi). Lucretius and Philodemus (K. Kleve). The chisel and the muse: Diogenes of Oenoande and Lucretius (M. Ferguson Smith). Physics and therapy: Meditative elements in Lucretius' De rerum natura (M. Erler). Lucretius and doxography (D.T. Runia). Lucrece et Varron (L. Deschamps). Lucrece avait-il lu Enesideme? (C. Levy). Lucretius on nature and the epicurean self (A.A. Long). Lucretius and the epicurean other: on the philosophical background of DRN V. 1011-1027 (K. Algra). L'homme et l'animal dans le De rerum natura: Lucrece et la science de la vie (P. Schrijvers). Lucretius' olfactory theory in De rerum natura IV(M. Koenen). Cosmos ouvert et epidemies mortelles dans le De rerum natura (J. Kany-Turpin). Lucretius' gigantomachy (D. Clay). Storing up past pleasures: the soul-vessel-metaphor in Lucretius and in his Greek models (W. Gorler). L'interpretation des mythes comme lieu et enjeu de la polemique philosphique dans le De rerum natura (A. Gigandet). Lucretius and the unconscious (K.R. Gladman, P. Mitsis).