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Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace

by Dirk Obbink. 324 pgs.

Contributors:

   Dirk Obbink

Publisher:

   University of Oxford

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1995

Subjects:

Poetics, Philodemus,--Ca. 110-Ca. 40 B.C--Aesthetics, Lucretius Carus, Titus--Aesthetics, Horace--Aesthetics, Classical Poetry--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Classical Poetry--History And Criticism, Aesthetics, Ancient

	Contents
	Abbreviations,	xiii
1.	Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry, Diskin Clay	3
2.	Epicurean Poetics, Elizabeth Asmis	15
3.	Epicurean Poetics: Response and Dialogue, David Sider	35
4.	The Epicurean Philosopher as Hellenistic Poet, David Sider	42
5.	The Alleged Impossibility of Philosophical Poetry, Michael Wigodsky	58
6.	Reconstructing Philodemus' On Poems, Richard Janko	69
7.	Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an Evasion, James Porter	97
8.	Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism in Poetry, Elizabeth Asmis	148
9.	Philodemus on the Technicity of Rhetoric, David Blank	178
10.	How to Read Poetry about Gods, Dirk Obbink	189
11.	The Impossibility of Metathesis: Philodemus and Lucretius on Form and Content in Poetry, David Armstrong	210
12.	Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horace's Satires, Steven Oberhelman and David Armstrong	233
	Appendix 1. Philodemus, On Poems Book 5., Translated by David Armstrong from the edition of Cecilia Mangoni	255
	Appendix 2. Philodemus on Poetics, Music, and Rhetoric: A Classified Bibliography,	270
	General Bibliography ,	282
	Contributors,	289
	Index of Passages Discussed,	291
	Index of Greek and Latin Words,	298
	General Index,	302

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