Lucretius and the early modern
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Lucretius and the early modern
（Classical presences）
Oxford University Press, 2016
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"This book originated in a conference on 'Lucretius and the Early Modern', 16 May 2012, one of a series of conferences held by Oxford's Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS) ... co-sponsored by the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity"--Acknowledgements
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-310) and index
Contents of Works
- Epicurean subversion? : Lucretius's first proem and contemporary Roman culture / Stephen Harrison
- Lucretius in the early modern period : texts and contexts / David Butterfield
- Lucretian naturalism and the evolution of Machiavelli's ethics / Alison Brown
- Poetic flights or retreats? : Latin Lucretian poems in sixteenth-century Italy / Yasmin Haskell
- Lucretius, atheism, and irreligion in Renaissance and early modern Venice / N.S. Davidson
- 'Well said/well thought' : how Montaigne read his Lucretius / Wes Williams
- Michel de Morolles's 1650 French translation of Lucretius and its reception in England / Line Cottegnies
- Lucretianism and some seventeenth-century theories of human origin / William Poole
- Is the De rerum natura a work of natural theology? : some ancient, modern, and early modern perspectives / Nicholas Hardy
- Atheists and republicans : interpreting Lucretius in revolutionary England / David Norbrook
- Political philosophy in a Lucretian mode / Catherine Wilson
