Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius (Studies in Classics)

337 Pages·2007·1.9 MB·English

by  Myrto Garani

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Empedocles R :
EDIVIVUS
Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius
Myrto Garani
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Garani, Myrto, 1975–
Poetry and analogy in Empedocles and Lucretius / by Myrto Garani.
p. cm. — (Studies in classics)
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1. Empedocles. 2. Lucretius Carus, Titus. 3. Greek poetry—History and criticism. I. Title.
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Permissions ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Chapter One
Personification 29
Chapter Two
Similes 95
Chapter Three
Metaphors 151
Epilogue 221
Notes 223
List of Translations 269
Bibliography 271
Index Locorum 293
General Index 315
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Abbreviations
Arr.2 G. Arrighetti, Epicuro Opere, 2nd ed., (Turin 1973).
CIAG H. Diels (ed.), Commentaria in Aristotelem Greaca
(Berlin, 1882–1909).
DK H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der
Vorsokratiker6 (3 vols.; Berlin, 1951–52).
Dox. Graec. Doxographi Graeci, ed. H. Diels (Berlin, 1879; cited
from 1965 reprint).
Ep. Hdt. Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus.
Ep. Men. Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus.
Ep. Pyth. Epicurus, Letter to Pythocles.
FHS&G W. W. Fortenbaugh, P. M. Huby, R. W. Sharples, and
D. Gutas (eds.), Theophrastus of Eresus (Leiden, 1992).
LSJ H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon9
rev. H. S. Jones, with supplement (Oxford, 1968)
[rev. supplement by P. G. W. Glare (1996)]
M&P A. Martin and O. Primavesi (eds.), L’Empédocle de
Strasbourg (P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665–1666) (Berlin and
Strasbourg, 1998)
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viii Abbreviations
OCD Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed., eds. S. Hornblower
and A. Spawforth (Oxford, 1996).
OLD Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. P. G. W. Clare (Oxford,
1982)
PHerc. Papyri Herculanenses
SVF H. von Arnim, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta (4 vols.,
Leipzig, 1903–24).
TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Leipzig, 1887–)
Us. H. Usener, Epicurea (Leipzig, 1887)
ΚΔ Epicurus, Principal Sayings.
Fragments of the Presocratic philosophers are numbered according to DK.
When Empedocles is identified by context, I am referring to his testimonia
(labelled A) or extant fragments (labelled B) without naming him. There is a
full list of the translations used in the end of the book.
Abbreviations for journal titles generally follow the system used in L’Année
Philologique; lists of standard abbreviations for classical authors and works
can be found in LSJ and the OLD.
Permissions
The translations of Empedocles’ testimonia are reprinted by permission of
University of Toronto Press from B. Inwood, The poem of Empedocles: a text
and translation with an introduction, revised edition (Phoenix. Supplementary
volume; 39), Copyright © 2001 by University of Toronto Press Incorporated.
Text and translation of Empedocles’ extant fragments are reprinted by
permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd from Wright, M. R. (© 1981,
1995): Empedocles, the extant fragments.
The translation of Lucretius’ De rerum natura is reprinted by permis-
sion of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from
LUCRETIUS, Loeb Classical Library ® Volume 181, translated by W. H.
Rouse, 1924, revised by Martin F. Smith, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Uni-
versity Press, Copyright © 1975, 1982, 1992 by the President and Fellows of
Harvard College]
The translation of Diogenes Laertius is reprinted by permission of the
publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from DIOGENES
LAERTIUS: LIVES OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS–VOLUME II,
Loeb Classical Library® Volume 185, translated by R. D. Hicks, Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1925 by the President and
Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.
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