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the cambridge companion to
lucretius
Lucretius’ didactic poem De rerum natura (‘On the Nature of Things’) is
an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of
Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its redis-
covery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases
of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this Cam-
bridge Companion experts in the history of literature, philosophy and science
discuss the poem in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary
text and as a vehicle for progressive ideas. The Companion is designed both as a
handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Lucretius, and as a
series of stimulating essays for students of classical antiquity and its reception. It
is completely accessible to the reader who has read Lucretius only in translation.
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An eighteenth-century architectural realisation of the Lucretian ‘calm temples of the wise’
looking out over a storm-tossed sea (see p. 14 below)
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THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO
LUCRETIUS
EDITED BY
STUART GILLESPIE
Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow
PHILIP HARDIE
Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations
page viii
List of contributors
x
Preface
xiv
Introduction
1
stuart gillespie and philip hardie
part i: antiquity
1
Lucretius and Greek philosophy
19
james warren
2
Lucretius and the Herculaneum library
33
dirk obbink
3
Lucretius and Roman politics and history
41
alessandro schiesaro
4
Lucretius and previous poetic traditions
59
monica gale
5
Lucretian architecture: the structure and argument of the
De rerum natura
76
joseph farrell
6
Lucretian texture: style, metre and rhetoric in the De rerum natura
92
e. j. kenney
7
Lucretius and later Latin literature in antiquity
111
philip hardie
v
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