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Bibliography:
The purpose of this
bibliography is to indicate to the curious and the studious where further
help and discussion can be obtained on the detailed questions provoked by
this poem. Exhausting as it may appear, it makes no claims to being
exhaustive, and most individual items will suggest further reading in
their own bibliographies. Lucretius is an encyclopedic writer whose work
raises questions in many different spheres, and people read him both for
philosophical and for literary reasons: I have therefore tried to list
items that are of interest in both fields. The more accessible items I
have marked with an asterisk, and in the case of less accessible items I
have occasionally indicated where an informative review can be found.
Works of
Reference:
The Oxford Classical
Dictionary (2nd edition, Oxford 1970) *Robert Graves The Greek Myths
(2 vols., Harmondsworth 1955)
Texts:
The most accessible
text of Epicurus is to be found in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent
Philosophers vol. 1. (Loeb Classical Library, with facing English
translation by R. D. Hicks, London and Cambridge, Mass., 1925). The best
text of Epicurus is Arrighetti: Epicuro, Opere (2nd edition, Torino
1973), with Italian translation and notes. Still useful is Bailey's
Epicurus: The Extant Remains (Oxford 1926), with translation and
commentary.
For the texts of the
Presocratic philosophers, see: Kirk, Raven and Schofield: The
Presocratic Philosophers (2nd edition, Cambridge 1983, usually
abbreviated to KRS), with English translation and full discussion. The
standard edition of all the known fragments is still H. Diels: Die
Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (6th edition, revised W. Kranz, Berlin
1952) (usually abbreviated to D-K). All the main texts relating to
Hellenistic philosophy are to be found, with full text, translation
and commentary) in Long and Sedley: The Hellenistic Philosophers (2
vols., Cambridge 1987). The most accessible text of Sextus Empiricus is
still to be found in the Loeb Classical Library (edited by R. G. Bury, 4
vols. 1933-49), and the most accessible English edition of the main
Sceptic texts with full discussion is to be found in J. Annas and J.
Barnes: The Modes of Scepticism (Cambridge 1985).
Most other ancient
texts referred to in the Introduction, Notes and Appendices are available
in English versions. The Penguin Classics series includes translations of
all works mentioned except the following, which are available in the Loeb
Classical Library series with English translation facing the original
text.
Aratus Phaenomena
(in: Callimachus: Hymns)
Aristotle Physics, Metaphysics, On Coming into Being; Natural History,
On the Movements of Animals, Meteorology, On the Heavens.
Callimachus Aetia, Hecale etc.
Cicero Brutus, For Flaccus, Letters to his Friends, Letters to his
brother Quintus, On Divination, On Duties, On the Nature of the Gods,
Prior Academics, Tusculan Disputations, Verrine Orations
Diodorus Siculus
Ennius (in: Remains of Old Latin vol. 1)
Galen On Temperaments
Homeric Hymns in: Hesiod & Homeric Hymns
Lucian Conversations of Prostitutes
Plato Axiochus, Cratylus
Pliny Natural History
Plutarch Against Epicurean Happiness (in: Moralia vol. XIV)
On hearing poets (in: Moralia vol. 1)
Seneca Natural History
Suetonius On Grammarians
Theognis (in: Greek Elegy and Iambus vol. 1)
Theophrastus Characters
Vitruvius On Architecture
The two texts not
published by Penguin and/or Loeb are as follows:
Aetius in: Diels Doxographi Graeci (1879) 273-444
Nicander Fragments ed. A. S. F. Gow and A. F. Scholfield, Cambridge
1953
Major Editions
of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura:
Editio AIdina
( A ancius) Venice 1500
Editio Juntina (Candidus) Florence 1512
Lambinus, D. (Paris 1563-4,1565,1570; Frankfurt 1583)
Lachmann, K. (Berlin 1850)
Munro, H. A. J. (Cambridge 1864,1866,1873,1886)
Giussani, C. (Torino 1896-8)
Bailey, C. (Oxford Classical Text, 1900, 1922) (OCT)
Leonard-Smith (Madison 1942)
Bailey, C. (3 vols. Oxford 1947)
Ernout-Robin (Bude, 2nd edition, Paris 1962)
Martin, J. (Teubner, 5th edition, Leipzig 1963)
Smith, M. F. (Loeb Classical Library, London and Cambridge, Mass.1975)
Muller, K. (Zurich 1975)
Editions of
Single Books of De Rerum Natura:
Book I, edited by P.
Michael Brown (Bristol 1984)
Book 3, edited by R. Heinze (Leipzig 1897)
Book 3, edited by E. J. Kenney (Cambridge 1971)
Book 4, edited by J. Godwin (Warminster 1986)
Book 5, edited by C. D. N. Costa (Oxford 1985)
Book 6, edited by J. Godwin (Warminster 1991)
On the General
Philosophical Background, See:
Barnes, J. The
Presocratic Philosophers (2nd edition, London 1982)
Long, A. A. Hellenistic Philosophy (2nd edition, London 1986)
(reviewed by R. B. Todd, Phoenix 29 (1975) 295'-9)
Sharples, R. W. Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics (London 1996)
On
Epicureanism in Particular, See Also:
Bailey, C. The
Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford 1928)
de Witt, N. W. Epicurus and his Philosophy (Minneapolis 1954)
Diano, C. Scritti Epicurei (Florence 1974)
Frischer, B. The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and philosophical
recruitment in Ancient Greece (Berkeley/Los Angeles 1982)
Gigon, O. 'Zur Psychologie Epikurs' in: Aspects de la Philosophie
Hellenistique (Fondations Hardt Entretiens) 32 (1986) 67-98
*Jones, H. The Epicurean Tradition (London 1989)
Mitsis, P. Epicurus' Ethical Theory; the Pleasures of Invulnerability
(Cornell 1988)
Momigliano, A: review of Farrington: Science and Politics in the
Ancient World: Journal of Roman Studies 31 (1941) 149-57
Nussbaum, M. C. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in
Hellinistic Ethics (Princeton 1994)
Obbink, N. Philodemus and Poetry (Oxford 1995)
Paratore, E. 'La Problematica sull'epicureismo a Roma' in Aufstieg und
Niedergang der romischen Welt (ed. Temporini) vol. I.4 (1973) 116-204
Rist, J. M. Epicurus, an Introduction (Cambridge 1972)
Schmid, W. Epicuro e I' epicureismo cristiano (Brescia 1984)
Sedley, D. 'Epicurus and his professional rivals' Etudes sur
l'epicurisme antique: Cahiers de Philologie I (1976) 121-59
On the History
of the Genre of Didactic Epic, See:
*Cox, A. 'Didactic
Poetry' in (ed.) J. Higginbotham Greek and Latin Literatue, a
Comparative Study (London 1969) 124-61
Pohlmann, E. 'Charakteristika des romischen Lehrgedicts' in Aufstieg
und Niedergang der romischen Welt (ed. Temporini) vol. I.3, 814-901
On Hellenistic
Literature, See:
Fraser, P. M.
Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford 1972)
*Hutchinson, G. O. Hellenistic Poetry (Oxford 1988)
Clausen, W. 'Callimachus and Roman Poetry' Greek, Roman and Byzantine
Studies 5 (1964) 181-96
For Roman
Literature and Its Social Setting, See:
Griffin, J. Latin
Poets and Roman Life (London 1985)
*Ogilvie, R. M. Roman Literature and Society (Harmondsworth 1980)
Rawson, E. Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic (London
1985)
On the New
Poets, See:
Granarolo, J. 'L'epoque
neoterique ou la poesie romaine d'avant-garde au dernier siecle de la
Republique (Catulle excepte)' in Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen
Welt I.3 278-360
*Quinn, K. The Catullan Revolution (London 1969)
General
Accounts of the Work of Lucretius Include:
Bergson, H. The
Philosophy of Poetry: the genius of Lucretius (New York 1959)
Bignone, E. Storia della letteratura latina vol. 2, chs. 6-8
(Florence 1945)
Bollack, M. La Raison de Lucrece (Paris 1978)
Boyance, P. Lucrece et I' Epicurisme (Paris 1963)
Clay, D. Lucretius and Epicurus (Ithaca 1983)
*Dalzell, A. 'Lucrecius' in: Kenney, E. J. (ed.) The Cambridge History
of Classical Literature vol. 2, part 2, 33-55
Dudley, D. R. (ed.) Lucretius (London 1965)
*Kenney, E. J. Lucretius (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics
no. 11 (1977))
Masson, J. Lucretius, Epicurean and Poet (2 vols., London 1907-9)
*Minadeo, R. The Lyre of Science (Michigan 1969)
Nichols, J. H. Epicurean Political Philosophy: the De Rerum Natura of
Lucretius (Ithaca and London 1976)
Perelli, L. Lucrezio Poeta dell'angosia (Florence 1969)
Regenbogen, O. Lukrez, seine Gestalt in seinem Gedicht (Leipzig
1932)
*Santayana, G. Three Philosophical Poets (Cambridge, Mass. 1910)
*Segal, C. Lucretius on Death and Anxiety: Poetry and Philosophy in
De Rerum Natura (New Jersey 1990)
*Sikes, E. E. Lucretius: poet and philosopher (Cambridge 1936)
Traglia, A. Sulla formazione spirituale di Lucrezio (Rome 1948)
More Specific
Items on Lucretius Include:
Ackermann, E.
Lukrez und der Mythos (Wiesbaden 1979), reviewed by E. J. Kenney in
ClassicalReview31 (1981) 19-21
Amory, A. 'Obscura de re lucida carmina: Science and Poetry in De Rerum
Natura', Yale Classical Studies 21 (1969) 143-68
Arragon, R. F. 'Poetic Art as a Philosophic Medium for Lucrecius'
Essays in Criticism II (1961) 371-89
Brown, R. D. 'Lucretius and Callimachus' Illinois Classical Studies
7 (1982) 77-97
Classen, C. J. 'Poetry and Rhetoric in Lucretius' Transactions of the
American Philological Association 99 (1968) 77-118 - Probleme der
Lukrezforschung (Hildesheim 1986)
Clay, D. 'The Sources of Lucrecius' Inspiration' Etudes sur
I'epicurisme antique (Cahiers de Philologie) 1 (1976) 205-27
Deutsch, R. E. The Pattern of Sound in Lucretius ( Diss. Bryn Mawr
1939)
Ferrero, L. Poetica Nuova in Lucrezio (Florence 1949)
Friedlander, P. 'The pattern of sound and atomistic theory in Lucretius'
American Journal of Philology 62 (1941) 16-33
Gale, M. R. Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge 1994)
Gillis, D. J. 'Pastoral Poetry in Lucretius' Latomus 26 (1967)
339-62
Kenney, E. J. 'Doctus Lucretius' Mnemosyne 23 (1970) 366-92
Mayer, R. 'The Epic of Lucretius' Papers of the Leeds International
Latin Seminar 6 (1990) 35-43
Minadeo, R. 'The Formal Design of the de rerum natura' Arion 4
(1965) 444-61
Minyard, J. D. Lucretius and the Late Republic (Leiden 1985)
Muller, G. 'Die Finalia der sechs Bucher des Lukrez' in Lucrece (Fondations
Hardt Entretiens) 24 (1977) 197-231
Sallmann, K. G. Die Natur bei Lukrez (Bonn, 1962)
Schiesaro, A. Simulacrum et imago: gli argomenti analogici nel De Rerum
Natura (Pisa 1990)
Schrijvers, P. H. Horror ac Divina Voluptas, Etudes sur la poetique et
la poisie de Lucrece (Amsterdam 1970), reviewed by E. J . Kenney in
Classical Review 22 (1972) 348-51 - 'Le Regard sur l'invisible. Etude
sur l'emploi de I'analogie dans l'oeuvre de Lucrece' in Lucrece (Fondations
Hardt Entretiens) 24 (1978)
Snyder, J. M. Puns and poetry in Lucretius' de rerum natura
(Amsterdam, 1980), reviewed by D. A. West in Classical Review 31
(1981)
Sykes Davies, H. 'Notes on Lucretius' Criterion 11 (1931-2) 25-42
Townend, G. B. 'The Original Plan of Lucretius' de rerum natura'
Classical Quarterly 29 ( 1979) 101-11
West, D. The Imagery and Poetry of Lucretius (Edinburgh 1969) -'Lucretius'
Methods of Argument' Classical Quarterly 25 (1975) 94-116
On the
Particular Topic of The "Anti-Lucrece Chez Lucrece', See:
Kinsey, T. E. 'The
Melancholy of Lucretius' Arion 3 (1964) 115-30
Patin, H. J. G. Etudes sur la poisie latine (Paris 1883) vol. i,
117-37
On the Details
of the Topics Contained in Books One and Two, the following Are of
Importance:
Avotins, I. 'The
question of mens in Lucretius 2.289' Classical Quarterly 29
(1979) 95-100 - 'On some Epicurean and Lucretian arguments for the
infinity of the universe' Classical Quarterly 33 (1983) 421-7
Brown, R. D. 'Lucretian ridicule of Anaxagoras' Classical Quarterly
33 (1983) 146-60
Capelle, W. 'Das Problem der Urzeugung bei Aristoteles und Theophrast und
in der Folgezeit', Rheinisches Museum 98 (1955) 150-80
Englert, W. G. Epicurus on the swerve and voluntary action
(Atlanta, Georgia 1987)
Fowler, D. P. 'Lucretius on the clinamen and "free will" (2.251-
93)' in: (__):. Studi sull'epicureismo greco e latino offerti a
Marcello Gigante (2 vols. Naples 1983) 329-52
Furley, D. J. 'Lucretius and the Stoics' Bulletin of the Institute of
Classical Studies 13 (1966) 13-33 - Two Studies in the Greek
Atomists (Princeton 1967) - 'The Greek Theory of the Infinite
Universe' Journal of the History of Ideas 42 (1981) 571-85
Gottschalk, H. B. 'Lucretius 1.983' Classical Philology 70 ( 1975 )
42-4
Kleve, K. 'Philosophical Polemics in Lucretius' in Lucrece (Fondations
Hardt Entretiens) 24 ( 1978) 39-75 - 'id facit exiguum clinamen'
Symbolae Osloenses 15 (1980) 27-30
Muller, G. Die Darstellung der Kinetik bei Lukrez (Berlin, 1959)
Saunders, T. J. 'Free will and the atomic swerve in Lucretius' Symbolae
Osloenses 49 (1984) 37-59
Schmidt, J. Lukrez und die Stoiker. Quellen und Untersuchungen zu De
Rerum Natura (Marburg 1975)
Vlastos, G. 'Minimal Parts in Epicurean Atomism' Isis 56 (1965)
121-47
On the
Prologues of the Different Books, and Lucretius' Attitude to Poetry, See:
Canfora, L. 'I
proemi del de rerum natura' Rivista dl Filologia e di Istruzione Classica
110 (1982) 63-77
Cox, A. S. 'Lucretius and his message: a study in the prologues of the
de rerum natura' Greece and Rome 18 (1971) 1-16
Elder, J. P. 'Lucretius 1.1-49' Transactions of the American
PhilologicalAssociation 85 (1954) 88-120
Giancotti, F. Il Preludio di Lucrezio (Messina 1959)
Segal, C. 'Poetic Immortality and the Fear of Death: the second proem of
the De Rerum Natura' Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 92
(1989) 193-212
Waszink, J. H. 'Lucretius and Poetry' Mededelingen der konin-klijke
Nederlandle Akademie van Wetenschafpen (Afd. Letterkunde) N.S. 17
(1954) 243-57
On Memmius,
See Especially:
Boyance, P. 'Lucrece
et son disciple' Revue des Etudes anciennes 52 (1950) 212-33
Gruen, E. S. 'The consular elections for 53 BC' in: J. Bibauw Hommages
a Marcel Rennard (Brussels 1969)
Holland, L. A. Lucretius and the Transpadanes (Princeton
1979)101-15
Roller, D. W. 'Gaius Memmius: Patron of Lucretius' Classical Philology
65 (1970) 246-8
Townend, G. 'The Fading of Memmius' Classical Quarterly 28 (1978) 267-83
Wiseman, T. P. 'The Two Worlds of Titus Lucretius' in Cinna the Poet
and other Roman Essays (Leicester, 1974) 11-43
On the
Epicurean View of the Soul, See:
Kerferd, G. B.
'Epicurus' doctrine of the soul' Phronesis 16 (1971) 80-96
On the
Diatribe Against the fear of Death, See:
Furley, D. J.
'Nothing to us?' in M. Schofield and G. Striker, (eds.) The Norms of
Nature: studies in Hellenistic ethics (Cambridge/Paris 1986) 75-91
Stork, T. Nil igitur mors est ad nos: Der Schlussteil des dritten
Lukrezbuches und sein Verhaltnis zur Konsolationsliteratur (Bonn 1970)
Wallach, B. P. Lucretius and the Diatribe against the Fear of Death:
DRN 3.830-1094 (Leiden 1976)
On the Theory
of Perception and the Refutation of Scepticism, See:
Annas J. and J.
Barnes The Modes of Scepticism (Cambridge 1985)
Asmis, E. 'Lucretius' explanation of moving dream figures at 4.768-76'
American Journal of Philology 102 (1981) 138-45 - Epicurus'
Scientific Method (Ithaca/London 1984)
Barigazzi, A. 'Epicure et le Scepticisme' Association Guillaume Bude:
Actes de congres (1969) 286-93
Burnyeat, M. 'The upside-down back-to-front sceptic of Lucretius 4.472'
Philologus 122 (1978) 197-206
Gigante, M. Scetticismo e Epicureismo (Naples 1981), reviewed by D.
P. Fowler in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2 (1984) 237-67
Glidden, D. K. 'Sensus and sense-perception in the de rerum
natura' California Studies in Classical Antiquity 12 (1981) 155-81
Schoenheim, U. 'The place of tactus in Lucretius' Philologus
110 (1966) 71-87
Schrijvers, P. H. 'La Pensee d'Epicure et de Lucrece sur le sommeil'
Etudes sur l'epicurisme antique (Cahiers de Philologie) I (1976)
231-59 -'Die Traumtheorie des Lukrez' Mnemosyne 33 (1980) 128-51
Sedley, D. 'On Signs' in Science and Speculation ed. Barnes,
Burnyeat, Brunschwig and Schofield (Cambridge 1982) 239-72
Striker, G. 'Epicurus on the truth of sense impressions' Archiv fur
Geschichte der Philosophie 59 (1977) 125-42
Taylor, C. C. W. 'All perceptions are true' in (ed.) Schofield, Burnyeat
and Barnes Doubt and Dogmatism (Oxford 1980) 105-24
On Lucretius'
Treatment of Sex and Love, See:
Barone, C. 'Le spese
e le illusioni degli amanti (L. 4. 1123-30)' Studi Urbinati di Storia,
Filosofia e Letterature 52 (1978) 75-90
Betensky, A. 'Lucretius and Love' Classical World 73 (1980) 291-9
*Brown, R. D. Lucretius on Love and Sex (Leiden 1987)
Fitzgerald, W. 'Lucretius' cure for love in the de rerum natura'
Classical World 78 (1984) 73-86
Goar, R. J. 'On the end of Lucretius' fourth book' Classical Bulletin
47 (1971) 75-7
Rosivach, V. J. 'Lucretius 4.1123-40' American Journal of Philology
101 (1980) 401-3
Taladoire, B. A. 'Lucrece devant l'amour' Annales de la Faculte' des
Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Nice 21 (1974) 231-5
Traina, A. ' Dira Libido (sul linguaggio lucreziano dell'Eros)'
Studi di Poesia Latina in onore di A. Traglia ( ed. Di Storia) (Rome
1979) vol. 2, 259-76
On the
Epicurean View of Pleasure, See:
Gosling, J. C. B.
and C. C. W. Taylor The Greeks on Pleasure (Oxford 1982) 345-413
Rist, J. M. 'Pleasure: 360-300 BC' Phoenix 28 (1974) 167-79
On the Gods in
Epicureanism and the Anti-Teleological Argument of the Poem, See:
Farrington, B.
The Faith of Epicurus (London 1967)
Festugiere, A. J. (transl. C. W. Chilton) Epicurus and his Gods
(Oxford 1955)
Lemke, D. Die Theologie Epikurs (Munich 1973)
Solmsen, F. 'Epicurus and cosmological heresies' American Journal of
Philology 72 (1951) 1-23
On the History
and Nature of Language, Society and Politics and Lucretius' Views on
Progress, See:
Blickman, D. R. 'Lucretius,
Epicurus and Prehistory' Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 92
(1989) 157-91
Edelstein, L. The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity
(Baltimore 1967)
Fowler, D. P. 'Lucretius and Politics' in M. Griffin and J. Barnes (eds.)
Philosophia Togata -Essays on Roman Philosophy and Society (Oxford
1989) 120-50
Furley, D. J. 'Lucretius the Epicurean. On the History of Man' in Lucrece
(Fondacions Hardt Entretiens) 24 (1977) 1-27
*Kenney, E. J. 'The Historical Imagination of Lucretius' Greece and
Rome 19 (1972) 12-24
*Long, A. A. 'Pleasure and Social Utility - the virtues of being
Epicurean' in H. Flashar and O. Gigon (eds.) Aspects de la Philosophie
Hellenistique (Fondations Hardt Entretiens) 32 (1986) 283-324
Merlan, P. 'Lucretius -Primitivist or Progressivist?' Journal of the
History of Ideas 11 (1950) 364-8
Monci, R. C. 'Lucretius on Greed, Political Ambition and Society: DRN
3.59-86' Latomus 40 (1981) 48-66
Phillipson, R. 'Die Rechtsphilosophie der Epikureer' in: Studien zu
Epikur und den Epikureern (Hildesheim 1983) 27-89
Robin, L., 'Sur la conception epicurienne du progres' Revue de
Metaphysique et de Morale 23 (1916) 697-719
Schmid, W., 'Lucretius Ethicus' in Lucrece (Fondations Hardt
Entretiens) 24 (1978) 123-65
Schrijvers, P. H. 'La pensee du Lucrece sur I'origine de la vie'
Mnemosyne 27 (1974) 245-61 - 'La pensee de Lucrece sur I'origine du
langage' Mnemosyne 27 (1974) 337-64
On the Plague
at the End of Book Six, See:
Bright, D. F. 'The
Plague and the Structure of the De Rerum Natura' Latomus 30 (1971)
607-32
Commager, H. S. Jr, 'Lucretius' Interpretation of the Plague' Harvard
Studies in Classical Philology vol. LXII (1957), 105-18
Penwill, J. L. 'The Ending of Sense: Death as Closure in Lucretius Book 6'
Ramus 25 (1996) 146-69
On the History
of the Text of Lucretius, See Especially:
Cini, G. F. 'La
posizione degli "Italici" nello stemma lucreziano' Atti e Memorie
dell'Accademia Toscana La Colombaria 41 (1976) 115-69
Reeve, M. D. 'The Italian Tradition of Lucretius' ltalia Medioevale e
Umanistica 23 (1980) 27-48
Reynolds, L. D. Texts and Transmission: a Survey of the Latin Classics
(Oxford 1983)
Richter, W. Textstudien zu Lukrez (Munich 1974)
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