Lucretian receptions : history, the sublime, knowledge /
"Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important model for later poets in antiquity and after, including Milton. This innovative set of studies on the reception of Lucretius is organized round...
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Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Cultural and historical narratives in Virgil's Eclogues and Lucretius
- Virgilian and Horatian didactic : freedom and innovation
- Virgil's Fama and the sublime
- The speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15 : Empedoclean epos
- Lucretian visions in Virgil
- Horace's sublime yearnings : Lucretian ironies
- Lucretian multiple explanations and their reception in Latin didactic and epic
- The presence of Lucretius in Paradise lost.