SENECA Very Good

Oxford University Press, 2008

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Year of publication

2008

Author

Fitch, John G. (Ed. )

Publishers

Oxford University Press

Keyword

Latin Literature Poetry & Poets Seneca

Cover description

Very Good

Binding description

Softcover ISBN 0199282099

Description

Some pencilling to about 15 pages. 1 page creased. Faint staining to textblock. Minor foreedge crease to front wrap. ; This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC) , seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus. The articles collected in this volume explore Lucretius' poetic and argumentative technique from a variety of perspectives, and also consider the poem in relation to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and ideology of contemporary Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated. ; Oxford Readings In Classical Studies; 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.0 inches; 496 pages