Lucretius and His Sources : : A Study of Lucretius, "De rerum natura" I 635-920 /

Lucretius and His Sources : : A Study of Lucretius, "De rerum natura" I 635-920 / / Francesco Montarese.

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This book discusses Lucretius’ refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920. Chapter 1 argues that in DRN I 635-920 Lucretius was following an Epicurean source, which in turn depended on Theophrastean doxography. Chapter 2 shows that book...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Montarese, Francesco,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts , 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Lucretius drew the Critique from an earlier Epicurean polemic
  • Chapter 2. Books XIV and XV of Epicurus’ ΠΦ
  • Chapter 3. Lucretius’ use of sources in DRN I
  • Chapter 4. Lucretius in the Critique
  • Appendix (A). Two stages of composition?
  • Appendix (B) The format of PHerc. 1148 (ΠΦ XIV) and PHerc. 1151 (ΠΦ XV)
  • Appendix (C) Do Epicurus’ Ad Herodotum and Ad Pythoclem reflect continuous books of ΠΦ?
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Indices

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