Stuart Gillespie / Philip Hardie (eds.)

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

Herausgeber: Gillespie, Stuart; Hardie, Philip

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2007 Companion is both an introduction to, and a series of thought-provoking essays on, one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius. It gives equal space to Lucretius' ancient contexts and to his post-classical reception and is completely accessible to the reader who has only read Lucretius in translation.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780521612661
• ISBN-10: 0521612667
• Artikelnr.: 22782018

Autorenporträt

STUART GILLESPIE is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.
PHILIP HARDIE is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie
Part I. Antiquity: 1. Lucretius and Greek philosophy James Warren
2. Lucretius and the Herculaneum library Dirk Obbink
3. Lucretius and Roman politics and history Alessandro Schiesaro
4. Lucretius and previous poetic traditions Monica Gale
5. Lucretian architecture: the structure and argument of the De rerum natura Joseph Farrell
6. Lucretian texture: style, metre and rhetoric in the De rerum natura E. J. Kenney
7. Lucretius and later Latin literature in antiquity Philip Hardie
Part II. Themes: 8. Lucretius and modern science Monte Johnson and Catherine Wilson
9. Moral and political philosophy: readings of Lucretius from Virgil to Voltaire Reid Barbour
10. Lucretius and the sublime James Porter
11. Religion and enlightenment in the neo-Latin reception of Lucretius Yasmin Haskell
Part III. Reception: 12. Lucretius in the middle ages Michael Reeve
13. Lucretius in the Italian Renaissance Valentina Prosperi
14. Lucretius in early modern France Philip Ford
15. Lucretius in the English Renaissance Stuart Gillespie
16. The English voices of Lucretius from John Evelyn to John Mason Good David Hopkins
17. Lucretius in the European Enlightenment Eric Baker
18. Lucretius in Romantic and Victorian Britain Martin Priestman
19. Lucretius and the moderns Stuart Gillespie and Donald Mackenzie.