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LIBRI AD MNEMOSYNEN MISSI K.A. A lgra , M.H. K oenen , P.H. S chrijvers (eds.), Lucretius and his background . Proceedings of the colloquium, Amsterdam, 26-28 June 1996. Amsterdam/Oxford/New York/Tokyo, North Holland, 1997. IX, 265 p. Pr. D 90.—. This volume contains the acta of the colloquium on ‘Lucretius and His Intellectual Background’ which took place under the supervision of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam from 26-28 June 1996. The rst nine papers explore the relation between Lucretius and speci c other authors or schools. David Sedley discusses Lucretius’ use of Epicurus’ On Nature and attempts to reconstruct Lucretius’ method of working in writing the DRN . Graziano Arrighetti focuses on how the DRN as a didactic poem ts into the Epicurean tradition, despite this tra- dition’s alleged hostility towards poetry. Tiziano Dorandi discusses the presence of Epicurean circles in the area around the Bay of Napels in the rst century BC, whereas Knut Kleve explores the possibility that Lucretius was acquainted with these circles, in particular with Philodemus. Martin Ferguson Smith points out that the similarities in the work of Diogenes of Oenoanda and that of Lucretius is due
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Published: Jan 1, 2000
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