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Zusatztext a great success and will be a trusty companion to the DRN for both novices and more experienced scholars. Informationen zum Autor Monica R. Gale is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. Klappentext This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature ofthe Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus. The articles collected in this volume explore Lucretius' poetic and argumentative technique from a variety of perspectives, and also consider the poem in relation to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and ideology of contemporary Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated. Zusammenfassung This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus. The articles collected in this volume explore Lucretius' poetic and argumentative technique from a variety of perspectives, and also consider the poem in relation to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and ideology of contemporary Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Monica R. Gale: Introduction 2: Disikin Clay: The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration 3: David Sedley: The Empedoclean Opening 4: Elizabeth Asmis: Lucretius' Venus and Stoic Zeus 5: Vinzenz Buchheit: Epicurus' Triumph of the Mind 6: W. J. Tatum: The Presocratics in Book 1 of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 7: Phillip De Lacy: Distant Views: The Imagery of Lucretius 2 8: David J. Furley: Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man 9: H. S. Commager: Lucretius' Interpretation of the Plague 10: Peta Fowler: Lucretian Conclusions 11: Gerhard Muller: The Conclusions of the Six Books of Lucretius 12: P. H. Schrijvers: Seeing the Invisible: A Study of Lucretius' Use of Analogy in De Rerum Natura 13: David West: Lucretius and Epic 14: E. J. Kenney: Doctus Lucretius 15: Robert D. Brown: Lucretius and Callimachus 16: P. Friedlander: Pattern of Sound and Atomic Theory in Lucretius 17: Jane M. Snyder: The Significant Name in Lucretius 18: Duncan Kennedy: Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in Lucretius 19: D. P. Fowler: Lucretius and Politics ...
