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This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.

Author Biography:

David Butterfield is a Fellow of Queens' College and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge.
Release date NZ
January 24th, 2019
Pages
362
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Tables, black and white; 8 Plates, color; 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
140x215x25
ISBN-13
9781108730235
Product ID
29091403

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