Lucretius and his sources : a study of Lucretius, De rerum natura I 635-920 / Francesco Montarese.
This study is an original contribution to the discussion of Lucretius' use of sources and his relationship to Epicurus; furthermore, it provides a new edition of fragments of books 14 and 15 of Epicurus' On Nature. It focuses on understanding how Lucretius' sources presented the Preso...
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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' SZ
- 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 (SZ XIV) and PHerc. 1151 (SZ XV)
- Appendix (C) Do Epicurus' Ad Herodotum and Ad Pythoclem reflect continuous books of SZ?
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Indices
- 2.3.1 Was Plato the last of the limited pluralists in Theophrastus' ' Φυσιxαi δoξαι2.3.2 The detail of the arguments against Plato and air monism; 2.3.3 The dating of XIV and of Theophrastus' ' Φυσιxαi δoξαι; 2.4 Conclusion; Chapter 3. Lucretius' use of sources in DRN I; 3.1 The source of DRN I.156-598 and 951-1107; 3.2 Did Lucretius change source after line 598 of DRN I; 3.3 The Critique does not derive from the same source as 155 ff; 3.4 The connection between lines 634 and 635; 3.5 Why did Lucretius have the Critique at the centre of book I; 3.6 Was Epicurus the source of the Critique.
- Introduction; Chapter 1. Lucretius drew the Critique from an earlier Epicurean polemic; 1.1 Lucretius' information is second-hand; 1.2 Lucretius' source was an Epicurean text; 1.2.1 Lucretius' use of homoeomeria; 1.2.2 The choice of Heraclitus as representative monist; 1.2.2.1 The Stoics as fire monists; 1.2.2.2 The Stoic denial of void in the world; 1.2.3 Lucretius' arguments against the limited pluralists; 1.2.3.1 Lines 753-781; 1.2.3.2 Lines 782-802; 1.2.4 The Epicurean angle; 1.3 Conclusion; Chapter 2. Books XIV and XV of Epicurus' Περi φuσεως; 2.1 The content of books XIV and XV.
- 2.1.1 Book XIV was not dedicated to polemic2.1.1.1 Evidence from the format of PHerc. 1148; 2.1.1.2 Columns I-XXII; 2.1.1.3 Columns XXIII and XXIV; 2.1.1.4 Evidence from the sezioni; 2.1.2 Epicurus did not discuss Heraclitus' theory ΠΦ XIV; 2.1.3 Epicurus did not refute Empedocles' theory in ΠΦ XIV; 2.1.4 Book XV was not dedicated to criticism of Anaxagoras; 2.1.4.1 Cornice 2; 2.1.4.2 Cornice 3; 2.1.4.3 Cornice 4; 2.1.4.4 Cornice 5; 2.1.4.5 Cornici 6 and 7; 2.1.4.6 Cornice 8; 2.2 Other considerations intrinsic to Epicurus' work; 2.3 Do ΠΦ XIV and XV depend on Theophrastus' Φυσιxαi δoξαι.