The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
Introduction by Stuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie......Page 17
Part I: Antiquity......Page 33
1. Lucretius and Greek Philosophy by James Warren......Page 35
2. Lucretius and the Herculaneum Library by Dirk Obbink......Page 49
3. Lucretius and Roman politics and History by Alessandro Schiesaro......Page 57
4. Lucretius and Previous Poetic Traditions by Monica Gale......Page 75
5. Lucretian Architecture: The Structure and Argument of the De rerum natura by Joseph Farrell......Page 92
6. Lucretian Texture: Style, Metre and Rhetoric in the De rerum natura by E. J. Kenney......Page 108
7. Lucretius and Later Latin Literature in Antiquity by Philip Hardie......Page 127
Part II: Themes......Page 145
8. Lucretius and the History of Science by Monte Johnson and Catherine Wilson......Page 147
9. Moral and Political Philosophy: Readings of Lucretius from Virgil to Voltaire by Reid Barbour......Page 165
10. Lucretius and the Sublime by James I. Porter......Page 183
11. Religion and Enlightenment in the Neo-Latin Reception of Lucretius by Yasmin Haskell......Page 201
Part III: Reception......Page 219
12. Lucretius in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: Transmission and Scholarship by Michael Reeve......Page 221
13. Lucretius in the Italian Renaissance by Valentina Prosperi......Page 230
14. Lucretius in Early Modern France by Philip Ford......Page 243
15. Lucretius in the English Renaissance by Stuart Gillespie......Page 258
16. The English Voices of Lucretius from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good by David Hopkins......Page 270
17. Lucretius in the European Enlightenment by Eric Baker......Page 290
18. Lucretius in Romantic and Victorian Britain by Martin Priestman......Page 305
19. Lucretius and the Moderns by Stuart Gillespie and Donald Mackenzie......Page 322
Dateline......Page 341
Works Cited......Page 343
Main Lucretian Passages Discussed......Page 373