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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 Mller 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 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. Friedlnder 16.The Significant 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
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Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.
Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pre-Socratic philosophers.