Lucretius and the early modern [electronic resource] / edited by David Norbook, Stephen Harrison, and Philip Hardie.
Norbrook, David, 1950- editor.; Harrison, S. J., editor.; Hardie, Philip R., editor.
2015
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Title
Lucretius and the early modern [electronic resource] / edited by David Norbook, Stephen Harrison, and Philip Hardie.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191807152 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198713845
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198713845 doi
Call Number
PA6484
Dewey Decimal Classification
871.01
Summary
The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius's 'De Rerum Natura was a challenge to received ideas. This poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. This collection of essays demonstrates the sophisticated ways in which some readers assimilated the poem to theories of natural law and even natural theology, while others were both attracted to Lucretius's subversiveness and dissociated themselves from him.
Note
The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius's 'De Rerum Natura was a challenge to received ideas. This poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. This collection of essays demonstrates the sophisticated ways in which some readers assimilated the poem to theories of natural law and even natural theology, while others were both attracted to Lucretius's subversiveness and dissociated themselves from him.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Norbrook, David, 1950- editor.
Harrison, S. J., editor.
Hardie, Philip R., editor.
Series
Classical presences.
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Lucretius and the early modern.
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