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Lucretian receptions : history, the sublime, knowledge

Hardie, Philip R

2009

Overview

\"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 three major themes: history and time, the sublime, and knowledge. The De Rerum Natura was foundational for Augustan poets' dealings with history and time in the new age of the principate. It is also a major document in the history of the sublime; Virgil and Horace engage with the Lucretian sublime in ways that exercised a major influence on the sublime in later antique and Renaissance literature. The De Rerum Natura presents a confident account of the ultimate truths of the universe; later didactic and epic poets respond with varying degrees of certainty or uncertainty to the challenge of Lucretius' Epicurean gospel\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Lucretius Carus, Titus. / Lucretius Carus, Titus Influence. / Virgil Criticism and interpretation. / Horace Criticism and interpretation. / Didactic poetry, Latin History and criticism. / Epic poetry, Latin History and criticism. / History in literature. / Sublime, The, in literature. / Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. / Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
• ISBN: 9780521760416, 0521760410

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PA6029.P45 H37 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE