Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Empedoclean opening
- Chapter 2 Two languages, two worlds
- Chapter 3 Lucretius the fundamentalist
- Chapter 4 Epicurus, On nature
- Chapter 5 Lucretius' plan and its execution
- Chapter 6 The imprint of Theophrastus
- Chapter 7 The transformation of book I
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General index
- Index of modern scholars
General index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Empedoclean opening
- Chapter 2 Two languages, two worlds
- Chapter 3 Lucretius the fundamentalist
- Chapter 4 Epicurus, On nature
- Chapter 5 Lucretius' plan and its execution
- Chapter 6 The imprint of Theophrastus
- Chapter 7 The transformation of book I
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General index
- Index of modern scholars
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- Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom , pp. 228 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998