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Lucretian Pleasures

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Abstract

This chapter’s main aim is to bring into focus Lucretius’ celebration of his own Epicurean pleasures. The DRN refers in its very first line to divine as well as human pleasures. It closes with the most frightful scene of bodily and mental pain, one that owing to the poem’s evident incompletion still lacks its Epicurean moral lesson about why even the most intense bodily pain need not be feared. In between those two extremities Lucretius offers a uniquely sensitive, and rarely appreciated, commentary on the meaning, boundaries and divine nature of true Epicurean pleasures, and on their intimate relationship to the study of physics, by one who can claim direct experience of their transformative effects.

Abstract

This chapter’s main aim is to bring into focus Lucretius’ celebration of his own Epicurean pleasures. The DRN refers in its very first line to divine as well as human pleasures. It closes with the most frightful scene of bodily and mental pain, one that owing to the poem’s evident incompletion still lacks its Epicurean moral lesson about why even the most intense bodily pain need not be feared. In between those two extremities Lucretius offers a uniquely sensitive, and rarely appreciated, commentary on the meaning, boundaries and divine nature of true Epicurean pleasures, and on their intimate relationship to the study of physics, by one who can claim direct experience of their transformative effects.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. List of Figures IX
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Lucretius and the Traditions of Ancient Philosophy
  6. Lucretian Pleasures 11
  7. Lucretius and the Epicurean View That “All Perceptions are True” 23
  8. Lucretius and the Mind-Body Relation: the Case of Dreams 43
  9. Can You Believe your Eyes? Scepticism and the Evidence of the Senses in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4. 237–521 61
  10. Epicurean Meteorology, Lucretius, and the Aetna 83
  11. Part II: Ancient Receptions
  12. Seneca as Lucretius’ Sublime Reader (Naturales Quaestiones 3 praef.) 105
  13. Lucretius in Late Antique Poetry: Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, Prudentius 127
  14. Part III: Recovery: Early Modern Scholars, Readers and Translators
  15. Lost in Translation. The Sixteenth Century Vernacular Lucretius 145
  16. The Persecution of Renaissance Lucretius Readers Revisited 167
  17. Part IV: Modern Receptions of Lucretius and his Thought
  18. Machiavelli’s Lucretian View of Free Will 201
  19. Reading Lucretius in Padua: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli and the Sixteenth-Century Recovery of Ancient Atomism 219
  20. Atoms, Elements, Seeds. A Renaissance Interpreter of Lucretius’ Atomism 235
  21. Lucretius in (moderate) Baroque: Meanings and Functions of the Lucretian Auctoritas in Giovanni Delfino’s Philosophical and Scientific Dialogues in Prose 251
  22. Lucretius in Leibniz 273
  23. Lucretius in the Spanish American Enlightenment 289
  24. Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and Arnold 309
  25. Part V: Images of Lucretius
  26. The Story of Lucretius 325
  27. Simulacra Lucretiana: The Iconographic Tradition of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura 339
  28. List of Contributors 381
  29. Index 385
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673487-002

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. List of Figures IX
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Lucretius and the Traditions of Ancient Philosophy
  6. Lucretian Pleasures 11
  7. Lucretius and the Epicurean View That “All Perceptions are True” 23
  8. Lucretius and the Mind-Body Relation: the Case of Dreams 43
  9. Can You Believe your Eyes? Scepticism and the Evidence of the Senses in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4. 237–521 61
  10. Epicurean Meteorology, Lucretius, and the Aetna 83
  11. Part II: Ancient Receptions
  12. Seneca as Lucretius’ Sublime Reader (Naturales Quaestiones 3 praef.) 105
  13. Lucretius in Late Antique Poetry: Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, Prudentius 127
  14. Part III: Recovery: Early Modern Scholars, Readers and Translators
  15. Lost in Translation. The Sixteenth Century Vernacular Lucretius 145
  16. The Persecution of Renaissance Lucretius Readers Revisited 167
  17. Part IV: Modern Receptions of Lucretius and his Thought
  18. Machiavelli’s Lucretian View of Free Will 201
  19. Reading Lucretius in Padua: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli and the Sixteenth-Century Recovery of Ancient Atomism 219
  20. Atoms, Elements, Seeds. A Renaissance Interpreter of Lucretius’ Atomism 235
  21. Lucretius in (moderate) Baroque: Meanings and Functions of the Lucretian Auctoritas in Giovanni Delfino’s Philosophical and Scientific Dialogues in Prose 251
  22. Lucretius in Leibniz 273
  23. Lucretius in the Spanish American Enlightenment 289
  24. Victorian Lucretius: Tennyson and Arnold 309
  25. Part V: Images of Lucretius
  26. The Story of Lucretius 325
  27. Simulacra Lucretiana: The Iconographic Tradition of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura 339
  28. List of Contributors 381
  29. Index 385
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