Lucretian receptions : history, the sublime, knowledge

Title
  1. Lucretian receptions : history, the sublime, knowledge / Philip Hardie.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Author
  1. Hardie, Philip R.

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Description
  1. ix, 306 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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.
Subject
  1. History in literature
  2. Sublime, The, in literature
  3. Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism
  4. Virgil > Criticism and interpretation
  5. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
  6. Lucretius Carus, Titus > Influence
  7. Horace > Criticism and interpretation
  8. Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism
  9. Lucretius Carus, Titus > De rerum natura
  10. Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JFE 10-116
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Author
  1. Hardie, Philip R.
Title
  1. Lucretian receptions : history, the sublime, knowledge / Philip Hardie.
Imprint
  1. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN
  1. 2009033248
ISBN
  1. 9780521760416 (hardback)
  2. 0521760410 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JFE 10-116
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