Oxford Readings in Lucretius

• An up-to-date collection of influential scholarly articles, including three translated into English for the first time
• A specially written Introduction places the articles in context and surveys the history of twentieth-century Lucretian scholarship
• All Latin and Greek is translated

Readership: Scholars and students of classics, especially of Latin literature.

Edited by Monica R. Gale, Senior Lecturer in Classics, Trinity College, Dublin

"All the papers here are good... and some are outstanding" - Gordon Campbell, The Classical Review

"a great success and will be a trusty companion to the DRN for both novices and more experienced scholars." - Katharina Volk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

1: Monica R. Gale: Introduction
2: Disikin Clay: The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration
3: David Sedley: The Empedoclean Opening
4: Elizabeth Asmis: Lucretius' Venus and Stoic Zeus
5: Vinzenz Buchheit: Epicurus' Triumph of the Mind
6: W. J. Tatum: The Presocratics in Book 1 of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
7: Phillip De Lacy: Distant Views: The Imagery of Lucretius 2
8: David J. Furley: Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man
9: H. S. Commager: Lucretius' Interpretation of the Plague
10: Peta Fowler: Lucretian Conclusions
11: Gerhard Muller: The Conclusions of the Six Books of Lucretius
12: P. H. Schrijvers: Seeing the Invisible: A Study of Lucretius' Use of Analogy in De Rerum Natura
13: David West: Lucretius and Epic
14: E. J. Kenney: Doctus Lucretius
15: Robert D. Brown: Lucretius and Callimachus
16: P. Friedlander: Pattern of Sound and Atomic Theory in Lucretius
17: Jane M. Snyder: The Significant Name in Lucretius
18: Duncan Kennedy: Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in Lucretius
19: D. P. Fowler: Lucretius and Politics