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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 June 2020
      16 July 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108379854
      9781108421966
      9781108433105
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379854
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 340 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 340 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Ancient Philosophy
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    Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired – and condemned – for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of classicists and philosophers to take stock of a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text's strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, the 'atomology' that posits a correlation of the letters of the poem with the atoms of the universe, the literary and philosophical intertexts that mediate the poem, and the political and ideological questions that it raises. Thirteen essays take up a variety of positions within these traditions of interpretation, innovating within them and advancing beyond them in new directions.

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    ‘This rich volume will help all students and readers of Lucretius’s poem challenge their preconceptions about it. All in, this volume represents an exciting collection of views on Lucretius that will undoubtedly inspire further scholarship not simply by setting out practical approaches for others to draw on and build upon but by showing how risking the unusual in our literary and philosophical thought can yield rich harvests from the seemingly familiar.’

    Emma Woolerton Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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