Afterlives of the garden receptions of Epicurean thought in the Early Empire and Late Antiquity
The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as well as poetic texts by both minor and major writers in the Latin literary can...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Cicero Series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803417906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Afterlives of the Garden, Modalities of Reception of Epicurean Thought in Proto-Imperial and Imperial Rome
- Chapter 1 Amator miser: Epicurean Aspects of the Portrayal of Infelicitous Amor in Horatian Lyric
- Chapter 2 Evidence and Anger: Epicurean Cognition in the Finale of the Aeneid
- Chapter 3 A Woman's Pleasure: Sulpicia and the Epicurean Discourse on Love
- Chapter 4 The Epicurean Project of the Ciris
- Chapter 5 Volcanos and Roman Epicureanism: Traces of Epicurean Theory in the Poet of the Aetna
- Chapter 6 Epicurus in the Roman Imperial Age: Four Case-Studies (Aristocles of Messene, Atticus, Dionysius of Alexandria and Plotinus)
- Chapter 7 Augustine and Epicureanism
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
