The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura
Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-73023-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-73023-5 (ISBN)
The first full study of the survival of Lucretius' De rerum natura, the controversial six-book poem espousing Epicurean philosophy. A detailed analysis of the poem's circulation, readers and commentators in antiquity, as well as its medieval scribes and owners, sheds light on the poem's tenuous threads of transmission.
This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.
This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.
David Butterfield is a Fellow of Queens' College and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge.
Preface; Introduction; 1. A sketch of the extant Lucretian manuscripts; 2. The indirect tradition of Lucretius; 3. The capitula of DRN; 4. The correcting hands of O; 5. The marginal annotations of Q1; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Capitula Lucretiana; Appendix 2. Apparatus fontium Lucreti (ante a.d. millesimum); Appendix 3. The corrections and annotations of O; Appendix 4. The foliation of the Lucretian archetype; Appendix 5. The fate of OQS in the early modern period.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.09.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Classical Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Tables, black and white; 8 Plates, color; 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 650 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-73023-X / 110873023X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-73023-5 / 9781108730235 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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