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Lucretius De rerum natura

The University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics, and Archaeology 2011–2012, Semester 2 Edinburgh 2012

Lucretius (U03531)

You should use this course handbook in conjunction with the Honours Handbook 2011–2012. There you will find information on course protocol, in particular on plagiarism and penalties for late coursework and a section on assessment. If you do not have a copy of the handbook it can be downloaded from: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate.

Course Organiser Dr Michael Lurie (ML) Office: William Robertson Wing 1M.13 | Office hour: by appointment only Telephone: (0131) 6503588 | E-mail: [email protected]

Brief Description of the Course This course will look at Lucretius’ poem ‘De rerum natura’. The text will be read partly in and partly in English translation and interpreted in its literary and philosophical contexts. Discussion will centre on the question of Lucretius’ aims, the way he uses poetical imagery and rhetoric to achieve these aims, his treatment of the central question of (im)mortality of the and of the fear of in book 3, and his theory of development of civilization in book 5. Attention will also be paid to the enormous influence of Lucretius in the Renaissance and in the European Enlightenment.

Teaching Arrangements

PLACE: Old Medical School, Doorway 4, Room G. 13 TIME: Tuesdays in Semester 2 at 14.00–15.50.

Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course students should be able to – translate fluently and accurately from the prescribed texts into clear and appropriate English – produce problem-oriented, well-argued, well-researched, relevant, and coherent coursework on specific aspects of Lucretius’ work and Graeco-Roman intellectual history – demonstrate in written work and in class an informed understanding of the most important generic, cultural, intellectual, and literary issues raised by the study of Lucretius, Roman poetry, and intellectual history as well as of the most important scholarly approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius’ work – make judicious use of dictionaries, commentaries, works of reference, and critical studies

Participation and contact There will be classes on all Tuesdays in Semester 2. In most meetings interaction and discussion rather than passive listening will be the norm. You are expected to prepare in advance for each meeting, in particular by reading thoroughly the relevant Latin text. Attendance is of course expected, and it will be appreciated of students who for whatever reason cannot attend a particular meeting give notice of this by e-mail. Spare copies of handouts will be available. Persistent absence without sufficient justification will be reported to the student’s Director of Studies.

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Messages about the course may be circulated to students by e-mail. It is now a University requirement that students must respond to e-mails sent to their University e-mail address and it will be assumed that every member of the class can be contacted at this address and checks incoming mail regularly. Feedback from students is always welcome. You may either contact the course organiser personally or speak to the Class Representative. At the end of the course, you will be asked for your anonymous comments on a course assessment questionnaire.

Teaching programme (provisional)

Week 1: Tabula Rasa: Lucretius in Context Week 2: Poetry, , and Religion: Lucretius’ mission, didactic plot, and intellectual and poetic achievement – Lucr. 1.1–158 & 1. 921–951 – On reading Lucretius, and freeing your Week 3: Nothing to Fear in I: Lucretius’ Psychology – Lucr. 3.1–93 & 94–230: Is soul material? – Lucretius and ancient theories of the soul Week 4: Psychology and Fear of Death: L’ Homme Machine? – Lucr. 3.417–669 & 3.670–829 – Lucretius and arguments for, and against, the immortality of the soul Week 5: Fear of Death & Danse Macabre: Readers in the Underworld – Lucr. 3.830–1094 – The speech of nature and the ‘diatribe’ against the fear of death Week 6: Nothing to Fear in God II: Lucretius against Creationism – Lucr. 5.1–234 – Creationism and its Critics: From to d’Holbach Week 7: The Origins of Life on : Evolutionary Theory vs. Myth – Lucr. 5. 772–1010 – Golden Age, lost Paradise, and ancient theories of progress Week 8: Primitive Man and Development of Human Civilization 1 – Lucr. 5.1011–1160 – Social contract, justice, and the origin of language Week 9: Development of Human Civilization 2: The Beginning of the End – Lucr. 5. 1161–1240 – Invention of religion – discovery of Week 10: History of Human Civilization 3: Primitivism vs. Progressivism – Lucr. 5.1241–1457: Civilization and its consequences – Lucretius’ theory and progressivism versus primitivism Week 11: Lucretius and the Radical Enlightenment: Then and Now

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Assessment This course will be assessed by a combination of prescribed coursework, which will count for 40% of the final mark, and a two-hour examination, which will count for the remaining 60%. There is no resit examination for this course, unless it is being taken as part of an Ordinary degree programme.

Assessment: Coursework There will be one essay (ca. 3,500 words), worth 40% of the marks for the course, due by 12 noon on Friday 6 April 2012. The essays can be more ‘literary’ or more ‘philosophical’ in approach or deal with the – literary and/or intellectual – reception of Lucretius in Antiquity or in modern Europe. They should, however, focus on the set portions of the text. If you wish to choose your own subject please consult with me about the title by seventh week. Otherwise try one of the following topics. Feel free to adapt the wording. 1. A ? A philosopher? 2. ‘It is obvious that Lucretius was a pessimist.’ Discuss 3. Why, and in which ways, does Lucretius use poetry to accomplish his philosophical mission? 4. Why, and in which ways, does Lucretius use myth to combat common religious beliefs? 5. What are Lucretius’ methods of argument? 6. ‘The Lucretian argument could not prevail over instinctive human hopes and, therefore, Platonic reason, which supplanted that hope, and Christian faith won the victory over the European heart and mind.’ Discuss. 7. What makes Book 3 of Lucretius’ poem so shocking and revolutionary? 8. Why did Lucretius' theology and his view of common religiosity and organised religion earn him the name of atheist? 9. "Lucretius' history of human civilization in Book 5.1011–1457 is not logically structured and inconsequent." Discuss 10. Write an interpretative analysis of one of the following passages: DRN 5.110–234 (against creationism); DRN 5.1028–1090 (origins of language); DRN 5.1161– 1240 (invention of religion) 11. What made Lucretius such an important, controversial, and divisive figure in the European Enlightenment? 12. Discuss the role Lucretius and his poem play in the work of one of the following philosophers of the European Enlightenment: Spinoza, Hobbes, John Toland (esp. Letters to Serena), La Mettrie, Rousseau (esp. Second Discourse), Helvetius, Hume, Herder, d’Holbach (esp. The System of Nature). 13. What role does Lucretius play in the development of contrat social theories of the 18th century?

Assessment: Degree Examination The degree examination (two hours) will consist of translation and interpretation of passages from the prescribed texts and an essay question.

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Bibliography

1. Prescribed Edition: – NB! W. H. D. Rouse & M. F. Smith (Loeb) ( and , Mass. 1975) ISBN-13: 978-0674992009

2. Translations:

– W. H. D. Rouse, revised by M. Smith (Loeb) (London and Cambridge, Mass. 1975) – R. E. Latham, and J. Godwin, Lucretius, On the Nature of the (Penguin 1994)

3. Commentaries:

– C. Bailey: Titi Lvcreti Cari De rervm natvra libri sex, ed. with prolegomena, critical apparatus, translation, and commentary by Cyril Bailey, 3 vols. (, 1947)

BOOK 1 – Lucretius, De rerum natura I. Edited with introduction, commentary and vocabulary by P. Michael Brown (Bristol Classical Press 1984; repr. 1996)

BOOK 2

– D. P. Fowler, Lucretius on Atomic Motion: A Commentary on De rerum natura 2. 1-332 (Oxford 2002)

BOOK 3 – Lucretius, De Rerum Natura Book 3, ed. by E. J. Kenney (Cambridge 1971; repr.) – Lucretius De rerum natura III, Ed. with transl. & comm. by M. Brown (Warminster 1997) – T. Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura Buch III, erklärt von Richard Heinze (Leipzig : Teubner, 1897)

BOOK 4 – Lucretius, De rerum natura IV. Ed. with transl. & comm. by J. Godwin (Warminster 1986) – R. D. Brown, Lucretius on Love and Sex: A Commentary on De Rerum Natura IV, 1030–1287 (Leiden, 1985)

BOOK 5 – Lucretius, De rerum natura V. Ed. with introd. & comm. by C. D. N. Costa (Oxford, 1984) – G. Campbell, Lucretius on Creation and . A Commentary on De Rerum Natura book 5, lines 772–1104 (Oxford 2003) – Lucretius, De rerum natura V. Ed. with introd. & comm. by M. Gale (Oxford 2009)

BOOK 6 – Lucretius, De rerum natura VI. Ed. with transl. & comm. by J. Godwin (Warminster 1991)

4. and Epicurean Philosophy 4.1. Epicurus: Texts – B. Inwood & L.P. Gerson (eds.), The Epicurus reader: selected writings and testimonia ( : Hackett 1994) – P. von der Muehll (ed.), Epicuri Epistulae tres et ratae sententiae a Laertio Diogene servatae (Stuttgart: Teubner 1922, repr.)

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– C. Bayley (ed.), Epicurus. The Extant Remains (Oxford 1926). Main texts, with English translation – G. Arrighetti (ed.), Epicuro. Opere (Torino 1960; 2nd ed. revised 1973), complete, with Italian translation

4.2. Hellenistic philosophy in general and in particular – A. A. Long/D. Sedley (eds.), The Hellenistic Philosophers. Vol. 1: Translations of the principal sources with philosophical commentary; Vol. 2: Greek and Latin texts with notes and bibliography (Cambridge 1987) – K. Algra [et al.] (eds.), The Cambridge History of Hellenistic philosophy (Cambridge 1999) – M. Erler, ‘Epikur – Die Schule Epikurs – Lukrez’, in: H. Flashar (ed.), Die Philosophie der Antike vol. 4: Die Hellenistische Philosophie, Part 1 (Basel 1994) 28–490 [important; with detailed annotated bibliography] – J. M. Rist, Epicurus. An Introduction (Cambridge 1972) – S. Everson, ‘Epicureanism’, in: D. Furley (ed.), Routledge History of Philosophy, vol. 2: From Aristotle to Augustine (London 1999) 188–221 – R. W. Sharples, Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics: An Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy (London, 1996) – G. Giannantoni & M. Gigante (eds.), Epicureismo Greco e Romano, 3 vols. (Bibliopolis 1996) – M. Erler/R. Bees (eds.), Epikureismus in der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit (Stuttgart 2000) – J. Warren (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (Cambridge 2009) – J. Fish & K. R. Sanders (eds.), Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition (Cambridge 2011)

4.3. Philosophy and intellectual life in the Late :

– E. Rawson, Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic (London, 1985) – M. Beard & M.H. Crawford, in the Late Republic: Problems and Interpretations (London, 1985) – M. Griffin & J. Barnes, Philosophia Togata: Essays on Philosophy and Roman (Oxford, 1989)

5. Didactic Poetry in General

– W. Kroll, ‘Lehrgedicht’, RE 12 (1925) 1842–57 – A. Cox, ‘Didactic Poetry’, in J. Higginbotham (ed.), Greek and Latin Literature, a Comparative Study (London 1969) 124-61 (reprinted in Classen 1986, see below) – A. Schiesaro, P. Mitsis & J. Strauss Clay (eds.), Mega Nepios. Il destinatario nell’ epos didascalico, Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici, v. 31 (Pisa 1993), collection of articles in English on the didactic addressee – K. Volk, The Poetics of Latin Didactic. Lucretius, Vergil, , Manilius (Oxford 2002) – M. Gale, ‘Didactic Epic’, in S.J. Harrison (ed.), A Companion to Latin Literature (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) 101–115

6. Lucretius 6.1. General Introductions: – E. J. Kenney, Lucretius (Greece and Rome, New Surveys 11, 1977) – M. Gale, Lucretius and the Didactic Epic (London 2001) – J. Godwin, Lucretius (London 2004) – cf. also M. Gale in J.M. Foley (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Epic (Oxford 2005) 440–451 – S. Gillespie/P. Hardie (eds.), Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (Cambridge 2007)

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6.2. Bibliographies – A. Dalzell, ‘A bibliography of work on Lucretius 1945–1972’, CW 66 (1973) 389-427, 67 (1973) 65– 112 – C.D. Giovine, ‘Lucrezio’ in Syzetesis (Festschrift M. Gigante, Naples 1983) 2. 649–677

6.3. Collections of Articles:

– D. R. Dudley (ed.), Lucretius (Routledge, 1965) – Lucrèce, Entretiens 24 (Fondation Hardt, Geneva, 1978) – C. J. Classen (ed.), Probleme der Lukrezforschung (Hildesheim 1986) [most articles are in English] – G. Giannantoni & M. Gigante (eds.), Epicureismo Greco e Romano, 3 vols. (Bibliopolis 1996) – K. A. Algra [et al.] (eds.), Lucretius and his Intellectual Background (Amsterdam 1997) – M. R. Gale (ed.), Oxford Readings in Lucretius (Oxford 2007) – M. Beretta & F. Citti (eds.), Lucrezio , la Natura e la Scienza (Firenze 2008)

6.4. Lucretius: Books

– O. Regenbogen, Lukrez -- Seine Gestalt in seinem Gedicht (Leipzig/Berlin 1932) – D. A. West, The Imagery and Poetry of Lucretius (Edinburgh 1969) – P. H . S c h r i j v e r s , Horror ac divina voluptas; etudes sur la poetique et la poesie de Lucrece (Amsterdam, 1970) – D. Clay, Lucretius and Epicurus (Ithaca/London 1983) – J.D. Minyard, Lucretius and the Late Republic (Leiden, 1985) – G. B. Conte, The Rhetoric of Imitation. Genre and Poetic Memory in and Other Latin (Ithaca 1986) – P. R. Hardie, Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford 1986), ch. 5 – A. Schiesaro, Simulacrum et imago. Gli argomenti analogici nel de rerum natura (Pisa 1990) – M. R. Gale, Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge 1994) – D. Obbink (ed.), and Poetry. Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and (Oxford 1995) – M. Deufert, Pseudo-Lukrezisches im Lukrez: die unechten Verse in Lukrezens "De rerum natura" (Berlin 1996) – D. Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom (Cambridge 1998) – D. Clay, Paradosis and survival : three chapters in the history of Epicurean philosophy (Ann Arbor 1998) – R. Jenkins, Virgil’s Experience (Oxford 1999), part 3 – D. Kennedy, Rethinking Reality. Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature (Ann Arbor 2002) – K. Volk, The Poetics of Latin Didactic. Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius (Oxford 2002) ch. 3 – L. Rumpf, Naturerkenntnis und Naturerfahrung. Zur Reflexion epikureischer Theorie bei Lukrez (München 2003), cf. review by T. Reinhardt in BMCR 2005.02.38 – D. Marković, The rhetoric of explanation in Lucretius’ "De rerum natura" (Leiden 2008) – B. Beer, Lukrez und Philodem: poetische Argumentation und poetologischer Diskurs (Vasel 2009) – J. Pollock, Déclinaisons: Le Naturalisme Poétique De Lucrèce à Lacan (Paris 2010)

6.5. Lucretius: Articles

– F. Jacoby, ‘Das Prooemium des Lucretius’, Hermes 56 (1921) 1–65 – P. Friedlander, ‘The Epicurean Theology of Lucretius’ First Prooemium (Lucr.1.44-49)’, TAPA 70 (1939) 368–79 – P. Friedländer, ‘Pattern of sound and atomistic theory in Lucretius,’ AJP 62 (1941) 16–34

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– C. J. Classen, ‘Poetry and Rhetoric in Lucretius’, TAPhA 99 (1968) 77–118 [reprinted in his Probleme der Lukrezforschung (Hildesheim 1986) 331–373] – D.J. Furley, ‘Variations on themes from in Lucretius’s Proem’, BICS 17 (1970) 55–64 – E. J. Kenney, ‘Doctus Lucretius’, Mnemosyne 4, ser. 23 (1970) 366–392 [repr. in Classen, Probleme der Lukrezforschung, 1986, cf. above) – V. Buchheit, 'Epikurs Triumph des Geistes', Hermes 99 (1971) 303–323; engl. transl. in: M. R. Gale (ed.), Oxford Readings in Lucretius (Oxford 2007) 104–131 – S. A. Cox, ‘Lucretius and his message. A study in the prologues of the DRN’, Greece & Rome 18 (1971) 1–16 – E.J. Kenney, ‘Vivida vis: polemic and pathos in Lucretius 1.62–101’ in T. Woodman and D. West (eds.), Quality and Pleasure in Latin Poetry (Cambridge 1974) 18–30 – D. Fowler, ‘Lucretius and politics’, in M. Griffin, J. Barnes, (eds.), Philosophia Togata (Oxford 1989) 120-50 – D. West, ‘Lucretius’ method of argument,’ CQ 25 (1975) 94–116 – E. Asmis, 'Lucretius' and Stoic Zeus', Hermes 110 (1982) 458–470, repr. in: M. R. Gale (ed.), Oxford Readings in Lucretius (Oxford 2007) 88–103 – E. Asmis, ‘Rhetoric and Reason in Lucretius’, AJPh104 (1983) 36–66 – E. M. Thury , ‘Lucretius' Poem as a Simulacrum of the Rerum Natura’, The American Journal of Philology, 108 (1987) 270–294 – P. Mitsis, ‘Committing Philosophy on the Reader: Didactic Coercion and Reader Autonomy in De Rerum Natura,’ MD 31 (1993) 111–128 – J. Salem, ‘Comment traduire religio chez Lucrèce ? Notes sur la constitution d’un vocabulaire philosophique latin à l’époque de Cicéron et Lucrèce’, Les Études Classiques, 62 (1994) 3–26 – A. Schiesaro, ‘The palingenesis of the De rerum natura’, PCPS 40 (1994) 81-107 – D.P. Fowler, ‘Lucretius and politics’, in Philosophia Togata, ed. M. Griffin and J. Barnes (Oxford 1989) 120-50 – R. Mayer, ‘The epic of Lucretius’, PLLS 6 (1990) 35-43 – D. Obbink, ‘Epicurus and Greek Religion,’ in his Philodemus on Piety Part I (Oxford 1996) 1–23 – A. Perutelli, ‘Iphigenia in Lucrezio’, SCO 46 (1996) 193–207 – K. Sier, ‘Religion und Philosophie im ersten Proömium des Lukrez’, Antike und Abendland 44 (1998) 97–106 – D. Sedley, ‘Lucretius’ Use and Avoidance of Greek’, in: J.N. Adams/R. G.Mayer (eds.), Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry, Proceedings of the British Academy, 93 (Oxford 1999) 227–246 – D. P. Fowler, ‘Philosophy and Literature in Lucretian Intertextuality.’ In: Roman Constructions. Readings in Postmodern Latin (Oxford 2000) 138–155 – G. Hutchinson, ‘The date of De rerum natura’, CQ 51 (2001) 150–62 – D. Kennedy, ‘Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius’, in: A. Sharrock & H. Morales (eds.), Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations (Oxford 2001) – A. Schiesaro, ‘Rhétorique, politique et didaxis chez Lucrèce’ in: A. Monet (éd.), Le jardin romain: épicurisme et poésie à Rome: mélanges offerts à Mayotte Bollack (Villeneuve d’Ascq 2003) 57–75 – M. Reeve, ‘The italian tradition of Lucretius revisited’, Aevum 79 (2005) 115–164 – T. Reinhardt, 'The Language of Epicureanism in ', in: T. Reinhardt, M. Lapidge, J.N. Adams (eds.), Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose, Proceedings of the British Academy no. 129 (Oxford 2005) 151–177

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– S. Trepanier, ‘The Didactic Plot of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, and its Empedoclean Model’, in R. Sorabji, R. W. Sharples (eds.), Greek and Roman Philosophy 100 BC to 200 AD (London 2007) 243–82 – M. Deufert, ‘Zu den gegenwärtigen Aufgaben der Lukrezkritik,’ Hermes 138 (2010) 48–69 – K. Volk, ‘Lucretius’ Prayer for Peace and the Date of De Rerum Natura,’ CQ 60 (2010) 127–131

6.6. Books and articles on DRN Book 3

– E. K. Rand, ‘La composition rhétorique du troisième livre de Lucrèce’, RPh 60 (1934), 243-66 – G. B. Conte, ‘Il trionfo della morte e la galleria dei grandi trapassati in Lucrezio III 1024–1053’, Studi italiani di filologia classica 37 (1966) 114–132 – B. Wallach, Lucretius and the diatribe against the fear of death: De natura III 830-1094 (Leiden, 1978) – H D. Jocelyn, ‘Lucretius, his Copyists and the Sorrows of the Underworld (De Rerum Natura 3.978-1023)’, AClass 29 (1986) 43–56 – M. Nussbaum, ‘Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (1989) 303–351 – Schütrumpf, E. ‘Lucretius De Rer. Nat. III (830–1094) – a Diatribe against the Fear of Death?’, in: Radke, A.E. (ed.), ‘Candide Iudex’. Beiträge zur augusteischen Dichtung. Festschrift für Walter Wimmel zum 75. Geburtstag (Stuttgart 1998) 346–351 – Ch. Segal, Lucretius on Death and Anxiety (Princeton 1990) – W. Görler, ‘Storing up Past Pleasures. The Soul-Vessel-Metaphor in Lucretius and his Greek Models’, in: K. A. Algra [et al.] (eds.), Lucretius and his Intellectual Background (Amsterdam 1997) 193–207 – T. Reinhardt, ‘The speech of nature in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura 3. 931–971’, CQ 52 (2002) 291–304 – K. R. Sanders, ‘Mens and emotion: De rerum natura 3.136–46’, CQ 58 (2008) 362-366 – T. Reinhardt, ‘Readers in the Underworld: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3. 912–1075’, JRS 94 (2004) 27–46 – J. Warren, Facing Death: Epicurus and his critics (Oxford 2004)

6.7. Books and articles on DRN Book 5

– A. O. Lovejoy and G. Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity (Baltimore 1935) – E. J. Kenney, ‘The Historical Imagination of Lucretius’, G&R 19 (1972), 12–24 – D. Furley, ‘Lucretius the Epicurean: on the history of man’, Entretiens 24 (1978, cf. above) 1–37 [reprinted in his Cosmic Problems (Cambridge 1989) 206–22] – D. R. Blickman, ‘Lucretius, Epicurus and Pre-history’, HSCP 92 (1989) 157–91 – B. Manuwald, Der Aufbau der lukrezischen Kulturentstehungslehre: De rerum natura 5,925-1457, Abh. der Geistes- und Sozialwiss. Kl., Ak. d. Wiss. u. d. Lit. 1980,3 (Mainz 1980) – J. Farrell, ‘The Structure of Lucretius’ Anthropology,’ MD 33 (1994) 81–95 – D. Obbink, ‘Epicurus on the Origin of Poetry in Human History’, in Epicureismo Greco e Romano, Atti del Congresso Internazionale, ed. G. Giannantoni and M. Gigante (Naples 1996) 683–700 – P. H . S c h r i j v e r s , Lucrèce et les de la vie. Mnemosyne Suppl. 186 (Leiden 1999) – G. Campbell, Lucretius on Creation and Evolution. A Commentary on De Rerum Natura book 5, lines 772–1104 (Oxford 2003) – B. Holmes, ‘Daedala Lingua: Crafted Speech in De Rerum Natura,’ AJP 126 (2005) 527–585 – D. Sedley, Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (Berkeley 2008) – T. Reinhardt, ‘Epicurus and Lucretius on the Origins of Language’, CQ 58 (2008) 127–140 – E. Asmis, ‘Lucretius’ new order: making a pact with nature’, CQ 58 (2008) 141–157 – D. Butterfield, ‘Emendations on the fifth book of Lucretius,’ MD 60 (2008) 177–189

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7. Reception of Lucretius in the intellectual history of Europe 7.1. General

– J. Masson, The of Lucretius Contrasted with Modern Doctrines of Atoms and Evolution (London 1884) – G. R. Hocke, Lukrez in Frankreich von der Renaissance bis zur Revolution (Köln 1935) – J. H. Wagenblass, Lucretius and the Epicurean tradition in English poetry, Ph. D. Diss., Harvard University 1946 – G. D. Hadzsits, Lucretius and his Influence (New York 1963) – W. S c h m i d , ‘ De Lucretio in litteris Germanicis obvio’, in R. Hanslik (ed.), Antidosis: Festschrift f. Walther Kraus z. 70. Geburtstag (Wien 1972) 327–355 – H. Jones, The Epicurean Tradition (London and New York: Routledge 1992) – R. Barbour, English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture (University of Massachusetts 1998) – W. R . Jo h n s o n , Lucretius and the Modern World (London 2000) – M. v. Albrecht, ‘Fortuna europea de Lucrecio’, Cuad. Filol. Clás. Estudios Latinos 20.2 (2002) 333–361, http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistas/fll/11319062/articulos/CFCL0202220333A.PDF – M. von Albrecht, ‘Lukrez in der europaischen Tradition’, Gymnasium 110 (2003) 333–361 – D. R. Gordon & D. B. Suits (eds.), Epicurus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance (New York 203) – G. Paganini & E. Tortarolo (eds.), Der Garten und die Moderne. Epikureische Moral und Politik vom Humanismus bis zur Aufklärung (Stuttgart, Frommann-Holzboog, 2004) – M. D. Reeve, ‘Lucretius from the 1460s to the 17th century: seven questions of attribution’, Aevum 80.1 (2006) 165–184 – S. Gillespie & P. Hardie (eds.), Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (Cambridge 2007) 131–324 – P. Hardie, Lucretian receptions: history, the sublime, knowledge (Cambridge 2009)

7.2. Renaissance and Humanism

– E. Belowski, Lukrez in der französischen Literatur der Renaissance (Berlin 1934) – Ch. P. Goddard, Epicureanism and Poetry of Lucretius in the Renaissance, Ph. D. Diss., Cambridge University 1991 – S. Gambino Longo, Savoir de la nature et poésie des choses : Lucrèce et Épicure à la Renaissance italienne (Paris 2004) – V. P r o s p e r i , "Di soavi licor gli orli del vaso". La fortuna di Lucrezio dall’Umanesimo alla Controriforma (Torino 2004), see review by Á. J. Traver Vera in BMCR 2006.10.07 – A. Brown, The return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence (Cambridge, Mass. 2010) – S. Greenblatt, : How the World Became Modern (New York 2011) – M. Paladini, Lucrezio e l’epicureismo tra riforma e controriforma (Napoli 2011) – G. Passannante, The Lucretian Renaissance (Chicago 2011) – J. G. Snyder, ‘Marsilio Ficino’s Critique of the Lucretian Alternative’, Journal of the History of Ideas 72 (2011) 165–181 – A. Palmer, ‘Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance,’ Journal of the History of Ideas 73 (2012) 395–416

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7.3. Enlightenment

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