David Butterfield (University of Cambridge)

The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full study of the survival of Lucretius' De rerum natura, the controversial six-book poem espousing Epicurean philosophy. A detailed analysis of the poem's circulation, readers and commentators in antiquity, as well as its medieval scribes and owners, sheds light on the poem's tenuous threads of transmission.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781108730235
• ISBN-10: 110873023X
• Artikelnr.: 54640390

Autorenporträt

David Butterfield is a Fellow of Queens' College and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. A sketch of the extant Lucretian manuscripts
2. The indirect tradition of Lucretius
3. The capitula of DRN
4. The correcting hands of O
5. The marginal annotations of Q1
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Capitula Lucretiana
Appendix 2. Apparatus fontium Lucreti (ante a.d. millesimum)
Appendix 3. The corrections and annotations of O
Appendix 4. The foliation of the Lucretian archetype
Appendix 5. The fate of OQS in the early modern period.