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OverviewLucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by false beliefs about the gods, and a detailed exposition of Epicurean atomist physics. For centuries, it has raised the question of whether it is primarily a poem or primarily a philosophical treatise, which also presents scientific doctrine. The current volume seeks to unite the three disciplinary aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - in order to offer a holistic response to an important monument in cultural history.With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers, but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds. Philosophers and scholars of ancient science look closely at the artistic placement of individual words, while literary critics explore ethical matters and the contribution of Lucretius' poetry to the argument of the poem. Topics covered include death and grief, evolution and the cosmos, ethics and politics, perception, and epistemology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daryn Lehoux (Department of Classics, Queen's University) , A. D. Morrison (Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Manchester) , Alison Sharrock (Professor of Classics, University of Manchester)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9780199605408ISBN 10: 0199605408 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 09 May 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents Preface IntroductionAlison Sharrock: 1: Monica R. Gale: Piety, labour, and justice in Lucretius and Hesiod 2: Duncan F. Kennedy: The political epistemology of infinity 3: R. J. Hankison: Lucretius, Epicurus, and the Logic of Multiple Explanations 4: Monte Ransome Johnson: Nature, spontaneity, and voluntary action in Lucretius 5: Daryn Lehoux: Seeing and unseeing, seen and unseen 6: Brooke Holmes: The poetic logic of negative exceptionalism in Lucretius, book five 7: David Konstan: Lucretius and the Epicurean attitude toward grief 8: Nil igitur mors est ad nosa Iphianassa, the Athenian plague, and Epicurean views of death 9: Myrto Garani: Lucretius and Ovid on Empedoclean cows and sheep 10: K. M. Earnshaw: (First-)Beginnings and (never-)endings in Lucan and Lucretius Bibliography IndexReviewsA welcome addition to the field T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, Phoenix Author InformationDaryn Lehoux is Professor of Classics at Queen's University. He is the author of Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World (2007) and What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking (2012). A. D. Morrison is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry (2007), Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes (2007), and co-editor of Ancient Letters (OUP 2007). Alison Sharrock is Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Seduction and Repetition in Ovid's Ars Amatoria 2 (OUP 1994) and Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (2009), and co-editor of Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations (OUP 2000) and The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris (OUP, 2006). She is co-editor (with David Konstan) of the series Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory, for which she is planning a book on Lucretius. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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