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Record Nr.

UNISA996197529403316

Titolo

Dynamic reading [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the reception of Epicureanism / / edited by Brooke Holmes and W.H. Shearin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49983-4

9786613595065

0-19-979502-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Altri autori (Persone)

HolmesBrooke <1976->

ShearinW. H

Disciplina

187

Soggetti

Epicureans (Greek philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Note on Editions""; ""Introduction: Swerves, Events, and Unexpected Effects""; ""1. Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean Death""; ""2. Epicurus�s Mistresses : Pleasure, Authority, and Gender in the Reception of the Kuriai Doxai in the Second Sophistic""; ""3. Reading for Pleasure: Disaster and Digression in the First Renaissance Commentary on Lucretius""; ""4. Discourse Ex Nihilo : Epicurus and Lucretius in Sixteenth-Century England""

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Sommario/riassunto

'Dynamic Reading' examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally.