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Lucretius and the Didactic Epic

Monica R. Gale

The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius is at first sight something of an oddity: a scientific treatise and at the same time a poem of great power and intensity. This…

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Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V

For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even…

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Oxford Readings in Lucretius

A collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince…

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Oxford Readings in Lucretius

A collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince…

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Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V

For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even…

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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

Monica R. Gale (Trinity College, Dublin)

This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition. It is a comprehensive study of Virgil’s use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language…

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Myth and Poetry in Lucretius

Monica R. Gale (Trinity College, Dublin)

This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius’ aims and methodology by considering the poet’s attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De…

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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

Monica R. Gale (Trinity College, Dublin)

This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition. It is a comprehensive study of Virgil’s use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language…

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Myth and Poetry in Lucretius

Monica R. Gale (Trinity College, Dublin)

This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius’ aims and methodology by considering the poet’s attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De…

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Texts and Violence in the Roman World

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christian martyrdom narratives of Late Antiquity. It will be…

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Conington’s Virgil: Georgics

John Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. Conington’s commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its…

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