Approaches to Lucretius : traditions and innovations in reading the De rerum natura / edited by Donncha O'Rourke.
"Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired - and condemned - for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in ma causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired - and condemned - for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in ma causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of classicists and philosophers to take stock of a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text's strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, the 'atomology' that posits a correlation of the letters of the poem with the atoms of the universe, the literary and philosophical intertexts that mediate the poem, and the political and ideological questions that it raises. Thirteen essays take up a variety of positions within these traditions of interpretation, innovating within them and advancing beyond them in new directions"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781108390057 1108390056 9781108379854 1108379850 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2020) |