Lucretian Receptions - History, the Sublime, Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His previous publications include Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (1986), Virgil's Epic Successors (1993), and Ovid's Poetics of Illusion (2002). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (2002) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (2007). Klappentext Discusses the reception of Lucretius' important and influential scientific poem on poets from Virgil and Horace to Milton. Zusammenfassung Lucretius' 'De rerum natura' exercised a major influence on the leading poets of Augustan Rome! Virgil and Horace! and created an important model for later poets. This book makes significant claims for the reception of Lucretius' scientific poem! considering the themes of history and time! the sublime and knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Time, History, Culture: 1. Cultural and historical narratives in Virgil's Eclogues and Lucretius; 2. Virgilian and Horatian didactic: freedom and innovation; Part II. Sublime Visions: 3. Virgil's Fama and the Lucretian and Ennian sublime; 4. The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean epos; 5. Lucretian visions in Virgil; 6. Horace's sublime yearnings; Lucretian ironies; Part III. Certainties and Uncertainties: 7. Lucretian multiple explanations and their reception in Latin didactic and epic; 8. The presence of Lucretius in Paradise Lost.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Hardie, Philip (Trinity College Hardie, Hardie Philip
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521760416
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76041-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets