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| - 'a great success and will be a trusty companion to the DRN for both novices and more experienced scholars.' - Katharina Volk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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| Description | | - An up-to-date collection of influential scholarly articles, including three translated into English for the first time
- A specially written Introduction places the articles in context and surveys the history of twentieth-century Lucretian scholarship
- All Latin and Greek is translated
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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.
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Readership: Scholars and students of classics, especially of Latin literature.
| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Monica R. Gale, Senior Lecturer in Classics, Trinity College, Dublin
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