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 Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, |
| Description | xiv, 365 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Companion to Lucretius |
| Series | Cambridge 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008295740 |
| ISBN | 9780521848015 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 0521848016 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 9780521612661 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521612667 (pbk.) |