Lucretius and the Early Modern, Hardback

This collection of essays presents a series of case studies which demonstrates the sophisticated ways in which different readers across the world have approached and interpreted Lucretius' remarkable poem De rerum natura over the centuries, from Lucretius' contemporary audience to the European Enlightenment.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Illustration(s): 15 black and white illustrations
• Number of pages: 332
• Collection: Classical Presences
• Publication date: 2015
• Dimensions: 150 x 225 x 27
• Cover type: Hardback
• Editor(s): Philip (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature, University of Cambridge) Hardie