Lucretius Poet and Philosopher

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher

Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹

In: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 90

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

De Gruyter | 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673487

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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.

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

Lucretius Poet and Philosopher

Background and Fortunes of ›De Rerum Natura‹

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