The Cambridge companion to Lucretius / edited by Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie.

Other author Gillespie, Stuart, 1958-
Other author Hardie, Philip R.
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 365 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Variant title Companion to Lucretius
SeriesCambridge companions to literature
Contents pt. 1. Antiquity. Lucretius and Greek philosophy / James Warren -- Lucretius and the Herculaneum library / Dirk Obbink -- Lucretius and Roman politics and history / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Lucretius and previous poetic traditions / Monica Gale -- Lucretian architecture : the structure and argument of the De rerum natura / Joseph Farrell -- Lucretian texture : style, metre and rhetoric in the De rerum natura / E. J. Kenney -- Lucretius and later Latin literature in antiquity / Philip Hardie -- pt. 2. Themes. Lucretius and the history of science / Monte Johnson and Catherine Wilson -- Moral and political philosophy : reading of Lucretius from Virgil to Voltaire / Reid Barbour -- Lucretius and the sublime / James I. Porter -- Religion and enlightenment in the neo-Latin reception of Lucretius / Yasmin Haskell -- pt. 3. Reception. Lucretius in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance : transmission and scholarship / Michael Reeve -- Lucretius in the Italian Renaissance / Valentina Prosperi -- Lucretius in early modern France / Philip Ford -- Lucretius in the English Renaissance / Stuart Gillespie -- The English voices of Lucretius from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good / David Hopkins -- Lucretius in the European Enlightenment / Eric Baker -- Lucretius in Romantic and Victorian Britain / Martin Priestman -- Lucretius and the moderns / Stuart Gillespie and Donald Mackenzie.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and indexes.
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