TY - BOOK ID - 85553468 TI - Approaches to Lucretius : traditions and innovations in reading the De Rerum Natura PY - 2020 SN - 1108390056 1108379850 1108386458 1108421962 1108433103 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Lucretius Carus, Titus. KW - Lukrecjusz Karus, Tytus KW - Lukret︠s︡iĭ Kar, Tit KW - Lucrezio, Tito KW - Lucrèce KW - Lucrez KW - Lukrez KW - Lucrecio Caro, T. KW - Caro, T. Lucrecio KW - Carus, Titus Lucretius KW - Lucretius KW - Lucrezio Caro, Tito KW - Lucrecio KW - Lucreti Cari, T. KW - לוקרציוס קרוס, טיטוס UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85553468 AB - Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired - and condemned - for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of classicists and philosophers to take stock of a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text's strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, the 'atomology' that posits a correlation of the letters of the poem with the atoms of the universe, the literary and philosophical intertexts that mediate the poem, and the political and ideological questions that it raises. Thirteen essays take up a variety of positions within these traditions of interpretation, innovating within them and advancing beyond them in new directions. ER -