Lucretius Poet and Philosopher: Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher

Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹

Edited by: Philip R. Hardie , Valentina Prosperi and Diego Zucca

Volume 90 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673487

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About this book

Six hundred years after Poggio’s retrieval of the De rerum natura, and with the recent surge of interest in Lucretius and his influence, there has never been a better time to fully assess and recognize the shaping force of his thought and poetry over European culture from antiquity to modern times. This volume offers a multidisciplinary and updated overview of Lucretius as philosopher and as poet, with special attention to how these two aspects interact. The volume includes 18 contributions by established as well as early career scholars working on Lucretius’ philosophical and poetic work, and his reception both in ancient and early modern times. All the chapters present new and original research. Section I explores core issues of Epicurean-Lucretian epistemology and ethics. Section II expounds much new material on ancient response to and reception of Lucretius. Section III presents new material and analysis on the immediate, fraught early modern reception of the poem. Section IV offers a wide collection of new and original papers on Lucretius’ fortunes in the period from Machiavelli up to Victorian times. Section V explores little known aspects of the iconographical and biographical motifs related to the De rerum natura.

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Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Valentina Prosperi and Diego Zucca, University of Sassari, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Valentina Prosperi, Diego Zucca and Philip Hardie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Lucretius and the Traditions of Ancient Philosophy
Lucretian Pleasures David Sedley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Lucretius and the Epicurean View That “All Perceptions are True” Diego Zucca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Lucretius and the Mind-Body Relation: the Case of Dreams Francesca Masi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Can You Believe your Eyes? Scepticism and the Evidence of the Senses in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4. 237–521 Richard Stoneman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Epicurean Meteorology, Lucretius, and the Aetna Francesco Verde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part II: Ancient Receptions
Seneca as Lucretius’ Sublime Reader (Naturales Quaestiones 3 praef.) Myrto Garani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Lucretius in Late Antique Poetry: Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, Prudentius Philip Hardie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Part III: Recovery: Early Modern Scholars, Readers and Translators
Lost in Translation. The Sixteenth Century Vernacular Lucretius Valentina Prosperi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Persecution of Renaissance Lucretius Readers Revisited Ada Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Part IV: Modern Receptions of Lucretius and his Thought
Machiavelli’s Lucretian View of Free Will Mario De Caro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Reading Lucretius in Padua: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli and the Sixteenth-Century Recovery of Ancient Atomism Andrea Ceccarelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Atoms, Elements, Seeds. A Renaissance Interpreter of Lucretius’ Atomism Elena Nicoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Lucretius in (moderate) Baroque: Meanings and Functions of the Lucretian Auctoritas in Giovanni Delfino’s Philosophical and Scientific Dialogues in Prose Mauro Sarnelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Lucretius in Leibniz Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Lucretius in the Spanish American Enlightenment Andrew Laird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and Arnold Stephen Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Part V: Images of Lucretius
The Story of Lucretius Giuseppe Solaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Simulacra Lucretiana: The Iconographic Tradition of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Gavina Cherchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classics, Ancient and Modern philosophy and philology, cultural and reception studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 403
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
- Coloured Illustrations: 25
Keywords: Lucretius; De Rerum Natura; poetry; reception

eBook

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110673487

Hardcover

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110673470