Contents:
  • The sources of Lucretius inspiration / Diskin Clay
  • The Empedoclean opening / David Sedley
  • Lucretius Venus and Stoic Zeus / Elizabeth Asmis
  • Epicurus triumph of the mind / Vinzenz Buchheit
  • The presocratics in book 1 of Lucretius' De rerum natura / W. J. Tatum
  • Distant views : the imagery of Lucretius / Phillip De Lacy
  • Lucretius the Epicurean : on the history of man / David J. Furley
  • Lucretius' interpretation of the plague / H. S. Commager, Jr.
  • Lucretian conclusions / Peta Fowler
  • The conclusions of the six books of Lucretius / Gerhard Mller
  • Seeing the invisible : a study of Lucretius' use of analogy in De rerum natura / P. H. Schrijvers
  • Lucretius and epic / David West
  • Doctus Lucretius / E.J. Kenney
  • Lucretius and Callimachus / Robert D. Brown
  • Pattern of sound and atomistic theory in Lucretius / P. Friedlnder
  • The significant name in Lucretius / Jane M. Snyder
  • Making a text of the universe : perspectives on discursive order in the De rerum natura of Lucretius / Duncan Kennedy
  • Lucretius and politics / D.P. Fowler.