Lucretius: links to some online
materials
Texts
in Latin or English of Lucretius and related authors
Lucretius (Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy; by David Sedley)
Epicurus (Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy; by David Konstan)
http://www.epicurus.info/ (replaces The
Philosophy Garden) (extensive links on Epicureanism, including onsite texts of
Epicurus, Cicero, Diogenes of Oenoanda, and L.; the biography of Epicurus by
Diogenes La‘rtius; also some pics, e.g. of busts of E. and of the Oenoanda
inscription)
A good website
devoted to Lucretius on Vroma (by Alison W. Barker; links to all
sorts of Lucretius stuff--texts, reception, essays etc.; some links dead)
Lucretius: Text in
Latin at the Latin Library (Full Latin text of DRN)
DRN
in Latin(German
website Biblioteca Augustana with a summary of DRN in Latin, plus Latin text of
the poem)
Links
to texts in Latin and English at ForumRomanum
The Internet Classics
Archive | On the Nature of Things by Lucretius (Contains a
[downloadable] translation by W. E. Leonard of the whole DRN)
Lucretius (Selections from the
DRN with a brief introduction)
Great Books Index -
Lucretius
(link to W. E. Leonard's translation of DRN)
Macrobius
- Saturnalia- Liber Sextus (Online text of Macrobius' Saturnalia;
Book 6 details some Vergilian borrowings from L. and other Latin poets)
http://www.iep.utm.edu/dioglaer/ (Translation of
Laertius' life of Epicurus, Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
Cicero: De Finibus
Book 1: selection in English
with
defense of Epicurus
Cicero On Divine Nature. Book I. (Link to selection
on Epicurus from Loeb text of Cicero de Natura Deorum)
Perseus text of Cic.
ad Quintum fr. 2.9 in Latin, but you can switch to English
Cicero ad Quintum
XIII =
Cic. ad Quintum fr. 2.9 (trans. of letter of Cic. in which he mentions
reading Lucretius, but does "multae etiam artis" mean "very
technical"?)
Introduction to Cicero's
philosophical work (IEP)
Lucretius (Pictures and
description of the Aldine edition of DRN)
The Colorado College
Tutt Library: Donald Jackson Collection (Link to a collection of book leaves
and pictures of them, including one from the Aldine Lucretius)
Info on Edition of the new Strasbourg
fragment of Empedocles; Empedocles in IEP here; brief info on the papyrus here; pic here
Pic of the papyrus containing
the Prologue to Callimachus' Aetia (click to see bigger photo)
Callimachus, "Prologue"
to the "Aetia" Tr. Stanley Lombardo and Diane Raynor
Some
Tools for Classics or for Latin Poetry
á Some Dictionaries of
Literary Theory and Related Areas
By
Lowell Edmunds of Rutgers.
á Tools of the Trade
for the Study of Roman Literature
By
Lowell Edmunds and Shirley Werner. (will be re-done and moved)
á Some links on rhetorical figures or
poetic terms:
á "Silver
Muse" Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
á Glossary of Rhetorical
Terms with Examples at Kentucky
á Allen/Greenough at
Perseus on grammatical and rhetorical terms
á GLOSSARY OF POETIC
TERMS
at U of Toronto
á Bibliography
etc.: Look it up!
Great
search tool at Kentucky for all kinds of material in Classics, including the
next two bibliographic tools; not updated recently
á TOCS-IN Search Great search tool for recent articles in
Classics
á Gnomon: Titelsuche Classics
bibliographical tool; type your terms in the Alle Felder (all fields) box and
click Suche Starten (start search). Then it may help to know that Rez. =
"a review", S. = p. (page). )
á Some simple help on the hexameter: basic rules
(actually this is a Vergil handout), and practical rules for
scansion
á "Silver
Muse" introdcution to "epic versification" (i.e. meter)
Pages
on Epicurus
http://www.epicurus.info/ (replaces The
Philosophy Garden; extensive links on Epicureanism, including onsite texts of
Epicurus, Cicero, Diogenes of Oenoanda, and L.; the biography of Epicurus by
Diogenes La‘rtius; also some pics, e.g. of busts of E. and of the Oenoanda
inscription)
http://www.epicurus.net/index.html
(Good site on Epicurus;
links to various primary sources on Epicurus by various authors, inc. Diogenes,
Lucr., Epicurus, Cicero, Horace, Lucian's Alexander the Oracle-Monger and
Zeus Rants; Cornelius Nepos, Life of Atticus, Plutarch, Against Colotes,
selection; Lactantius, The Divine Institutes (selection), and On the Anger
of God (selection) )
EPICURUS - INFLUENCES (Site with very
basic info about Epicurus and Lucretius)
Philodemus
Philodemus Project
Home Page
(Really neat page at UCLA on the
Philodemus Project and the Herculaneum papyri. Contains a description of the
project, pictures of the papyri, etc.)
Philodemus
Conference
(Link to 1995 conference about the Philodemus project, with some info on
Philodemus and the finds at Herculaneum)
George
Economou - Philodemos (Brief bio of Philodemus, with translations of his epigrams
by George Economou)
Articles
and Reviews Available Online (and ads for books)
((these
links not active but you can search BMCR))
BMCR
Review of Johnson, Lucretius and the Modern Worldby Katharina Volk
BMCR
Review of Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom by Gordon Campbell
BMCR Review of Conte,
Genres and Readers (with a chapter on Lucretius) by Sander M. Goldberg
BMCR
Review of Catto, Lucretius, Selections from De rerum natura, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1999/1999-11-04.html by
C. A. Hoffman
Review of Michael Brown's
Aris and Philips edition of Book 3 by Marcus Deufert
New
online journal Leeds International Classical Studies has first issue devoted
to Lucretius
(link works 2010)
Lucretius:
The Roman Poet of Humanism (Amateur's view/analysis of Lucretius
from a very weird website.) (link works 2010
E. A.
Poe Society of Baltimore (Link to an article on Poe and atomism
in his story Eureka)
Philosophical
Materialism
(An atheist's 1996 speech on materialism, including Lucretius)
Lucretius Underrated
Epicurean Philosopher
(An atheist's take on Lucretius; elementary and pedantic)
Courses,
Study Aids, or Bibliography on Lucretius and/or Epicureanism (links might not be workign 8/2010)
Lucretius'
On the Nature of the Universe (page containing study questions and
some basic background to DRN)
Lucretius'
On the Nature of the Universe (Same text as the other link of the
same name, but on a different website.)
Lucretius'
On the Nature of the Universe (Third link to the website of the same
name described above: study questions and basic background)
Lucretius'
On the Nature of the Universe (Fourth link to the study questions
website)
Study aids
for Lucretius and Epicurus (http://www.csun.edu/%7Ehcfll004/lucrques.html)
Links for
aids to the study of Epicureanism (http://www.csun.edu/%7Ehcfll004/epicurhelp.html)
Outline of
Lucretius
(Outline of the whole DRN by Prof. John Paul Adams)
Outline of
a lecture on Lucretius by Bruce MacLennan of
UT-Knoxville
http://www.let.kun.nl/~m.v.d.poel/bibliografie/lucretius.htm (Bibliography of
Lucretius, inc. editions and studies)
What
Lucretius Wrought ("Humanistic" commentary mentioned above in the
"De Rerum Natura" link--note that the link spells his name
incorrectly)
Notes on
Lucretius
(A fairly extensive description of Lucretius; a supplement to a Roman Civ class
at Montclair)
Atomism
and Infinite Divisibility - Chapter 5 - Atomism and Divisionism after Aristotle (Discussion of
Epicurus, Chrysippus, and Lucretius, plus more modern atomists)
GBT2
Lucretius Study Questions (Study questions from an Oxford
tutorial on Lucretius)
Encyclopedia-type
articles
Lucretius
[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Contains info on the life, work, and
philosophy of L., with a short bibliography)
Lucretius
on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (A very basic online encyclopedia
article on Lucretius)
Lucretius (Description from
Middlebury of Lucretius and his philosophy)
Reception
of Lucretius by later authors, thinkers
Thoroughly modern
Lucretius:
The dizzying psychic liberation offered by Lucretius' epic poem has resounded
throughout the centuries. Emily
Gowers in The Times of London
Poetry
Magazine, John Sokol, Holiday 2001 (A poem inspired by a line of
Lucretius)
Freud's *The Interpretation
of Dreams* Chapter One (Freud quotes and discusses DRN IV. 962 on the relation of
the dream to the waking state)
Letter to
William Short (1819 letter of Thomas
Jefferson in which he claims to be Epicurean)
Lucretius (A link to Tennyson's
poem about Lucretius)
BROOKE ON TENNYSON'S
LUCRETIUS
(Two paragraphs celebrating Tennyson's interpretation of Lucretius; goes with
link to the poem above.)
Another copy of TennysonÕs poem
ANTI-LUCRŽCE
- Dictionnaire philosophique (Info. in French and citations from
Cardinal de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius)
Michel Serres
(Description of the French philosopher/writer/physicist Serres, with a brief
description of how he thinks that Lucretius anticipated modern physics)
N2K:
Lightness/Leggerezza (an experimental web site centered on
the emerging narrative and cognitive form of the "encyclopedic
hyper-novel," as developed by Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco in their
essays and novels. Starts with Lucretius: ÒThe De Rerum
Natura of Lucretius is the first great work of poetry in which knowledge of
the world tends to dissolve the solidity of the world, leading to a perception
of all that is infinitely minute, light and mobileÓ)
The Atomic
Swerve band (MP3 songs) (Link (ah, now dead) to Classics
majors' band at Reed College. Songs (playable!) include "Greek Top
40" and "Lefty Scaevola" (possibly the best song ever written
about Q. Mucius Scaevola)
Epicurean
Simplicity
by Stephanie Mills; a 2002 book by an ecological writer using Epicurus to
promote a simple life free from consumerism and with limited technology
Lyrics to John
Lennon, "Imagine" ("Imagine there's
no heaven")
Lyrics to Madonna, "Material Girl"
Lyrics to Julie Andrews, "A Spoonful
of Sugar"
("... makes the medicine go down...")
Lyrics to Julie Andrews, "Something Good"
("Nothing
comes from nothing; nothing ever could")
Lyrics to Nick Cave, Into My Arms ("I don't believe
in an interventionist God")
Lyrics to The Doors, "Break
On Through (To The Other Side)"
Words to William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell"
("If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man
as it is: infinite.")
The
Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley; text here
Biographies
of Textual Critics (Biography of Lachmann, who created the stemma for
Lucretius; very interesting also for description of textual criticism)
Friedrich
Nietzsche
(Information on Nietzsche, who was a student of Lachmann, the famous editor of
Lucretius)
Everything
you ever wanted to know about textual criticism
Doing Lucretius (Modern Southern
poet; one poem in this book is about reading Lucretius)
No. 334:
Lucretius
(Link from the Engineering Dept. at U. of Houston with an analysis of DRN and its
relation to physics. Kind of simple; cf. esp: "Writing in Latin was an
uphill battle. It was a simple, direct language -- not good for handling
complex ideas. But he made it work. He reshaped Latin and created beauty on the
way." Apparently this is a nationally syndicated radio program!)
Fiction: A Tulip for
Lucretius by Ken MacLeod. ÒI was deep in a Californian orgy when the summons came,
like the voice of conscience.Ó
Lucretius is a
molecular dynamics simulation program (Enough said) (
Li-Lu:
Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations (Some quotes from
Lucretius and other prominent "L's")
