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Lucretius’ De rerum natura, written around 55 BCE, ranks among the most influential texts in Roman literature. The poet’s vision of a world made of atoms, his mockery of the fear of death and the gods, and fervent advocacy of the mortality of the soul over many centuries incensed his critics on one hand, and on the other earned him a devoted following. This volume provides an introduction to the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.
Price: $84.00
Pages: 128
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
Publication Date:
15 December 2022
ISBN: 9789004539037
Format: Paperback
"This is a well-balanced and extremely well-documented book. Among its most clear merits is the fact that it shows that the objective of Lucretian poetry is not Epicurean physics, but to find a way to eradicate the fear of death and the gods. Lucretius is a brief but comprehensive book, condensing the most important academic discussions about a fundamental poet." Andrés Vázquez, BMCR 2024.11.10.
Claudia Schindler, Ph.D. (2000), University of Hamburg, is Professor of Classical Philology/Latin at that university. She has published monographs and articles on Latin and neo-Latin epic and didactic poetry, late antique panegyric as well as on the history of classical scholarship.