Lucretius Poet and Philosopher : : Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹ /

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher : : Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹ / / ed. by Philip R. Hardie, Valentina Prosperi, Diego Zucca.

Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to modern times....

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MitwirkendeR:
Ceccarelli, Andrea,
Cherchi, Gavina,
De Caro, Mario,
Favaretti Camposampiero, Matteo,
Garani, Myrto,
Hardie, Philip,
Harrison, Stephen,
Laird, Andrew,
Masi, Francesca,
Nicoli, Elena,
Palmer, Ada,
Prosperi, Valentina,
Sarnelli, Mauro,
Sedley, David,
Solaro, Giuseppe,
Stoneman, Richard,
Verde, Francesco,
Zucca, Diego,
HerausgeberIn:
Hardie, Philip R.,
Prosperi, Valentina,
Zucca, Diego,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 90
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 403 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Lucretius and the Traditions of Ancient Philosophy
  • Lucretian Pleasures
  • Lucretius and the Epicurean View That “All Perceptions are True”
  • Lucretius and the Mind-Body Relation: the Case of Dreams
  • Can You Believe your Eyes? Scepticism and the Evidence of the Senses in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4. 237–521
  • Epicurean Meteorology, Lucretius, and the Aetna
  • Part II: Ancient Receptions
  • Seneca as Lucretius’ Sublime Reader (Naturales Quaestiones 3 praef.)
  • Lucretius in Late Antique Poetry: Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, Prudentius
  • Part III: Recovery: Early Modern Scholars, Readers and Translators
  • Lost in Translation. The Sixteenth Century Vernacular Lucretius
  • The Persecution of Renaissance Lucretius Readers Revisited
  • Part IV: Modern Receptions of Lucretius and his Thought
  • Machiavelli’s Lucretian View of Free Will
  • Reading Lucretius in Padua: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli and the Sixteenth-Century Recovery of Ancient Atomism
  • Atoms, Elements, Seeds. A Renaissance Interpreter of Lucretius’ Atomism
  • Lucretius in (moderate) Baroque: Meanings and Functions of the Lucretian Auctoritas in Giovanni Delfino’s Philosophical and Scientific Dialogues in Prose
  • Lucretius in Leibniz
  • Lucretius in the Spanish American Enlightenment
  • Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and Arnold
  • Part V: Images of Lucretius
  • The Story of Lucretius
  • Simulacra Lucretiana: The Iconographic Tradition of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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