CHAPTER 6. Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction to the 2009 Edition ix
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. Abbreviations xxv
6. Introduction 1
7. CHAPTER 1. Therapeutic Arguments 13
8. CHAPTER 2. Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice 48
9. CHAPTER 3. Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health 78
10. CHAPTER 4.Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire 102
11. CHAPTER 5. Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love 140
12. CHAPTER 6. Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature 192
13. CHAPTER 7. “By Words, Not Arms”: Lucretius on Anger and Aggression 239
14. CHAPTER 8. Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief 280
15. CHAPTER 9. Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul 316
16. CHAPTER 10. The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions 359
17. CHAPTER 11. Seneca on Anger in Public Life 402
18. CHAPTER 12. Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca’s Medea 439
19. CHAPTER 13. The Therapy of Desire 484
20. Philosophers and Schools 511
21. Bibliography 517
22. Index Locorum 531
23. General Index 550