The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura
David (University of Cambridge) Butterfield
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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The first full study of the survival of Lucretius' De rerum natura, the controversial six-book poem espousing Epicurean philosophy. A detailed analysis of the poem's circulation, readers and commentators in antiquity, as well as its medieval scribes and owners, sheds light on the poem's tenuous threads of transmission.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107037458
- ISBN-10
- 110703745X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-10-17
- Pages
- 368
- Dimensions
- 223x139x26
- Weight
- 590