CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. CHAPTER ONE. Lucretius's Adequacy to the Fear of Death: Logic, Poetry, and Emotion 3
6. CHAPTER TWO. Atoms, Bodies, and Individuals: Death in Epicurus and Lucretius 26
7. CHAPTER THREE. The Wind-Scattered Soul 46
8. CHAPTER FOUR. Nothingness and Eternity: The Fear of the Infinite 74
9. CHAPTER FIVE. The World's Body and the Human Body: Walls, Boundaries, and Mortality 94
10. CHAPTER SIX. The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 1 115
11. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 2 144
12. CHAPTER EIGHT. Generals, Poets, and Philosophers: Death in the Perspective of Time and Eternity 171
13. CHAPTER NINE. War, Death, and Civilization: The End of Book 5 187
14. CHAPTER TEN. The Plague Reconsidered: Progress, Poet, and Philosopher 228
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Fear of Death and the Good Life 238
16. Selected Bibliography 247
17. Index of Passages 253
18. General Index 273