Philip Hardie

Lucretian Receptions

History, the Sublime, Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the reception of Lucretius' important and influential scientific poem on poets from Virgil and Horace to Milton.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760416
• ISBN-10: 0521760410
• Artikelnr.: 26526126

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.