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Gale-2007-Oxford-Readings-Lucretius OXFORD READINGS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES The series provides students and scholars with a representative selec- tion of the best and most influential articles on a particular author, work, or subject. No single school or style of approach is privileged: the aim is to offer a broad overview of scholarship, to cover a wide variety of topics, and to illustrate a diversity of critical methods. The collections are particularly valuable for their inclusion of many important essays which are normally difficult to obtain and for the Wrst-ever translations of some of the pieces. Many articles are thoroughly revised and updated by their authors or are provided with addenda taking account of recent work. Each volume includes an authoritative and wide-ranging intro- duction by the editor surveying the scholarly tradition and considering alternative approaches. This pulls the individual articles together, set- ting all the pieces included in their historical and cultural contexts and exploring signiWcant connections between them from the perspective of contemporary scholarship. All foreign languages (including Greek and Latin) are translated to make the texts easily accessible to those without detailed linguistic knowledge. OXFORD READINGS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES Greek Religion Edited by Richard Buxton Homer’s Iliad Edited by Douglas L. Cairns Virgil’s Aeneid Edited by S. J. Harrison The Roman Novel Edited by S. J. Harrison Aristophanes Edited by Erich Segal Greek Tragedy Edited by Erich Segal Menander, Plautus, and Terence Edited by Erich Segal The Greek Novel Edited by Simon Swain Euripides Edited by Judith Mossman Ancient Literary Criticism Edited by Andrew Laird Aeschylus Edited by Michael Lloyd Ovid Edited by Peter E. Knox The Attic Orators Edited by Edwin Carawan Catullus Edited by Julia Haig Gaisser All available in paperback Oxford Readings in Classical Studies Lucretius Edited by MONICA R. GALE 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York ß Oxford University Press 2007 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn, Norfolk ISBN 978–0–19–926034–8 ISBN (Pbk.) 978–0–19–926035–5 13579108642 Contents List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 Monica R. Gale 1. The Sources of Lucretius’ Inspiration 18 Diskin Clay 2. The Empedoclean Opening 48 David Sedley 3. Lucretius’ Venus and Stoic Zeus 88 Elizabeth Asmis 4. Epicurus’ Triumph of the Mind 104 Vinzenz Buchheit 5. The Presocratics in Book 1 of Lucretius’ De rerum natura 132 W. J. Tatum 6. Distant Views: The Imagery of Lucretius 2 146 Phillip De Lacy 7. Lucretius the Epicurean: On the History of Man 158 David J. Furley 8. Lucretius’ Interpretation of the Plague 182 H. S. Commager, Jr. 9. Lucretian Conclusions 199 Peta Fowler 10. The Conclusions of the Six Books of Lucretius 234 Gerhard Mu¨ller 11. Seeing the Invisible: A Study of Lucretius’ Use of Analogy in De rerum natura 255 P. H. Schrijvers 12. Lucretius and Epic 289 David West viii Contents 13. Doctus Lucretius 300 E. J. Kenney 14. Lucretius and Callimachus 328 Robert D. Brown 15. Pattern of Sound and Atomistic Theory in Lucretius 351 P. Friedla¨nder 16. The SigniWcant Name in Lucretius 371 Jane M. Snyder 17. Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in the De rerum natura of Lucretius 376 Duncan Kennedy 18. Lucretius and Politics 397 D. P. Fowler Details of Original Publication 432 Index of Passages 435 Abbreviations ANRW H. Temporini and W. Haase (eds.), Aufstieg und Nieder- gang der Ro¨mischen Welt (Berlin/New York, 1972–) Bailey C. Bailey, T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura,3vols.(Oxford, 1947) Diels H. Diels, T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1923) DK H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 6th edn., 3 vols. (Berlin, 1951–2) D.L. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers Ep. Hdt. Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus (¼ Diogenes Laertius 10.35–83) Ep. Men. Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus (¼ Diogenes Laertius 10.121–35) Ep. Pyth. Epicurus, Letter to Pythocles (¼ Diogenes Laertius 10.84– 116) Ernout/Robin A. Ernout and L. Robin, Lucre`ce, De rerum natura: Com- mentaire exe´ge´tique et critique, 3 vols. (Paris, 1925–8) FGrH F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, 3 vols. (Berlin/Leiden, 1923–58; Leiden, 1998–) FLP E. Courtney, The Fragmentary Latin Poets (Oxford, 1993) FPL W. Morel (ed.), Fragmenta poetarum latinorum epicorum et lyricorum, praeter Ennium et Lucilium, 2nd edn. (Leip- zig, 1927) GP A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page, The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip, and Some Contemporary Epigrams (Cambridge, 1968) Guissani C. Guissani, T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex,4 vols. (Turin, 1896–8) HE A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page, The Greek Anthology: Hel- lenistic Epigrams, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1965) x Abbreviations Heinze R. Heinze, T. Lucretius Carus: De rerum natura Buch III (Leipzig, 1897) KD Epicurus, Kuriai Doxai (¼ Diogenes Laertius 10.139–54) Leonard/Smith W. E. Leonard and S. B. Smith, T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex (Madison, 1942) Munro H. A. J. Munro, T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex, 4th edn., 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1886) N2 A. Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, 2nd edn. (Leipzig, 1889) OCD3 S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edn. (Oxford, 1996) OLD P. G. W. Glare (ed.), Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford, 1982) PG J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologia Graeca RAC T. Klauser (ed.), Reallexicon fu¨r Antike und Christentum (Stuttgart, 1950–) RE A. Pauly and G. Wissowa (eds.), Real-Encylopa¨die der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1894–) ROL E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, 4 vols. (London and Cambridge, MA, 1935–40) SV Epicurus, Sententiae Vaticanae SVF H. von Arnim, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta (Leipzig, 1903–24) TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Leipzig, 1900–) TrGF R. Kannicht and B. Snell (eds.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, 5 vols. (Go¨ttingen, 1971–2004) Abbreviations for journal titles generally follow the system used in L’Anne´e Philologique; lists of standard abbreviations for Greek and Latin authors and workscanbefoundinLiddellandScott’sGreek-English Lexicon, 9th edn. (Oxford, 1996) and The Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford, 1982). Preface My objective in assembling the articles that make up the present volume has been—in accordance with the aims of the ‘Oxford Readings’ series—to offer a representative sample of important and influential work on Lucretius, with a focus on the second half of the twentieth century. I have also attempted to give an idea of the range of approaches employed by Lucretian scholars over this period, though a degree of selectivity has inevitably been necessary here. In particular, the majority of the articles selected are concerned primarily with literary as opposed to philosophical aspects of the poem: this emphasis was largely determined by the fact that discus- sion of philosophical issues has tended to centre on Lucretius as a source for the reconstruction of Epicurean doctrine rather than on the De rerum natura as a work in its own right. The philosophical aspect of the poem is, however, ultimately inseparable from the poetic, and is given particular attention in the articles by Phillip de Lacy, David Furley, and Don Fowler (Chapters 6, 7, and 18). With the exception of the Introduction, all the eighteen chap- ters have previously appeared in print, though three have been translated into English for the first time here (Chapters 4 and 10, translated by Bettina Reitz, and Chapter 11, translated by the editor). Some chapters have been lightly revised by the authors (W. J. Tatum, Chapter 5; David West, Chapter 12; E. J. Kenney, Chapter 13); in other cases a brief addendum has been appended. In addition, all quotations in Latin, Greek, and modern European languages have been translated (unless otherwise indicated, translations are the editor’s or the author’s own). Warm thanks are due to Hilary O’Shea, who Wrst proposed the project to me, and who has been remarkably patient during its long gestation. I am very grateful too to Peta Fowler and David Scourfield for helpful comments on drafts of the introduction; to Bettina Reitz for the enthusiasm and efficiency with which she produced her translations, and her good-humoured response to various subse- quent queries; and to Susanne Gippert for help with the translation vi Preface of the quotation from Friedrich Ru¨ckert at the end of Chapter 15.
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