Lucretius: links to some online materials
Texts
in Latin or English of Lucretius and related authors
A good
website
devoted to Lucretius on Vroma (by Alison W. Barker; links to all
sorts
of Lucretius stuff--texts, reception, essays etc.)
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 Laërtius; also some pics, e.g. of busts of
E. and of the Oenoanda inscription)
- Lucretius:
Text in Latin at the Latin Library (Full Latin text of DRN)
Text
in Latin at Bibiloteca Augustana
- DRN
in Latin (German website 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)
Some selections:
Lucretius(Translation of DRN 3, from
the Internet Classics Archive) - Lucretius
(Selections from the DRN with a brief introduction)
- Great
Books Index - Lucretius (Another link to W. E. Leonard's
translation
of DRN)
- De
Rerum Natura (Contains an abridged translation of DRN [Rouse and
Sisson],
plus links to Leonard's trans. and a "humanistic" commentary.)
- Lucretius'
"Pitiful Souls of Men!" (A quote from Lucretius in translation;
corresponding
lines unspecified)
- READ
CLASSICAL AUTHORS ONLINE (Links to all kinds of Classical Authors
online;
Trans. of DRN and online article "... Golden Age in Lucretius and
Vergil"
by Taro Yamashita (1994); also translation of some Epicurus)
- Titus
Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) - A Cow Mourning For Her Calf (Henry S.
Salt's 1912 translation of DRN 2.352-366)
- Lucretius
(contains trans. of selections from DRN pertaining to the Underworld)
- Lucretius
(Text and German translation of DRN 4.1141-1191, with analysis)
- Hypertexte
sur Lucrece (French site dedicated to DRN 1.80-132)
- Lucréce
: De Rerum Natura (French site dedicated to 1-634)
- Au
sujet de ... avec Lucréce
(Ier siécle
av. J.-C.) (French site with translations of the DRN)
- Lucréce
De Natura V 925 sqq. (Latin text and French translation of DRN
5.925 -952)
- Macrobius
- Saturnalia- Liber Sextus (Online text of Macrobius' Saturnalia;
Book 6 details some Vergilian borrowings from L. and other Latin poets)
- The
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Epicurus (Translation
of
Laertius' life of Epicurus)
- Cicero:
Tusculan Disputations (Latin text of DT, discussion of Epicurus
passim
throughout)
- Cicero: De Finibus Book 1: selection
in English with defense of Epicurus
- On
Divine Nature. Book I. (Link to selection on Epicurus from Loeb
text
of Cicero de Natura Deorum)
- Cicero
ad Quintum
fr. Book 2 Latin text; see #IX for Lucretius
- Perseus
text of Cic. ad Quintum fr. 2.9 in Latin, but you can switch
to English
- Cicero
ad Quintum XIII (trans. of letter of Cic. in which he
mentions
reading Lucretius, but does "multae etiam artis" mean "very technical"?)
- Cicero
ad Quintum XIII from a different site (Online collection of
some
letters of Cicero, their # XIII is the one in which he mentions reading
Lucretius, but does "multae etiam artis" mean "very technical"?)
- Simple
Introduction
to Cicero's philosophical work
- 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)
- Lucretius
text in Belmont Abbey College (With pictures)
Editionof
the new Strasbourg fragment of Empedocles; brief info on the papyrus 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
Some
Dictionaries
of Literary Theory and Related Areas
By Lowell Edmunds of Rutgers.
Tools of the
Trade for
the Study of Roman Literature
By Lowell Edmunds and Shirley Werner.
Links
for Augustan Age Authors(Erlangen)
Some links on rhetorical figures or poetic terms:
"Silver
Muse" Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
Glossary
of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
Allen/Greenough
at Perseus
GLOSSARY
OF POETIC TERMS
Another
GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS
Bibliography
etc.: Look it up!
Great search tool at Kentucky for all kinds of material in
Classics, including
the next two bibliographic tools
TOCS-IN
Search
Great search tool for recent articles in Classics
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). )
Some simple help on the
hexameter: basic
rules (actually this is a Vergil handout), and practical
rules for scansion
"Silver
Muse" introdcution to "epic versification" (i.e. meter)
Bibliography
on metrics
Pages
on Epicurus
- The
Philosophy Garden (extensive links on Epicureanism, including
onsite
texts of Epicurus, Cicero, Diogenes of Oenoanda, and L.; the biography
of Epicurus by Diogenes Laërtius; also some pics, e.g. of busts of
E. and of the Oenoanda inscription)
Prof. Jean-Fabrice Nardelli's survey
of sources for evidence about Epicurus
Themes
of Epicureanism (Good site; List of Epicurean doctrines and primary
sources supporting them.)
Epicurus
and Epicurean Philosophy(Good site on epicurus.net; 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
and Related Topics (Link to Encarta article on Epicurus,
Epicureanism,
Democritus, Lucretius, Lucian, & Pierre Gassendi )
- Epicurus
(lots of good stuff on Epicurus: texts, etc. from the Sophia Project at
Molloy College)
- EPICURUS
- INFLUENCES (Site with very basic info about Epicurus and
Lucretius)
- The
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Epicurus (Translation
of
Laertius' life of Epicurus)
- Welcome
to the Atomic Swerve Network! (Site that hosts the Philosophy
Garden
page)
- The
Philosophy Garden (same as previous link; extensive links on
Epicureanism,
including onsite texts of Epicurus, Cicero, and L.)
- philosophers.oxydex.com
has links to books on Epicurus that can be purchased online
Philodemus
- Philodemus
Project Home Page (Really neat page on the Philodemus Project and
the
Herculaneum papyri. Contains a description of the project, pictures of
the papyri, etc.)
- Philodemus
Conference (Link to 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)
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, by C.
A. Hoffman
BMCR
98.11.6, Brown, ed./trans., Lucretius III (Review of Michael
Brown's
Aris and Philips edition of Book 3 by Marcus Deufert )
Lucretius
seminars at University of Leeds 1999-
New online journal Leeds International Classical Studies has first
issue devoted to Lucretius
abstract
of APA paper by Daniel SOLOMON "The Sound of Silence: pleasure,
pain,
and the weather in Lucretius"
abstract
of APA paper by James I. PORTER "Body to Void: Horror Vacui, the
Sublime,
and the Structure of DRN"
Paolo
ASSO (APA abstract for his talk "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This:
Lucretius,
DRN 4.907-1026 and the Sound of Images")
Hackett
Publishing (An ad for Martin Ferguson Smith's "virtually unknown"
translation
of DRN)
- Lucretius:
The Roman Poet of Humanism (Amateur's view/analysis of Lucretius
from
a very weird website.)
- Lucrece
("La passion aveugle les amants" in French)
Lucréce,
texte n¡1(French essay on DRN 5.1161-1240)
- The
Imagery & Poetry of Lucretius (Buy David West's Book Online)
- Ought
I To Worry About Being Dead (Article by Alice Bell from Cambridge
on
death which incorporates DRN and Epicurus)
- Eros
and Rage (Online review of Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire
)
- On
the Nature of the Universe (Ad from OUP for Melville's new
translation
of the DRN)
- E.
A. Poe Society of Baltimore (Link to an article on Poe and atomism
in his story Eureka)
Book blurb (and
sample chapter!)of Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The
Georgics,
Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
- Lucretius
and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom (link to CUP for Sedley's
new
book)
Lucretius:
De rerum natura Book III (link to CUP for Kenney's commentary)
Lucretius
and His Intellectual Background(Buy the book online)
- Lucretius:
Selections from De rerum natura (Bolchazy ad for Lucretius:
Selections
from De rerum natura by Bonnie A. Catto)
- O'Donnell,
Aug. Class. Read. (Online article by J. O'Donnell about St.
Augustine,
incl. his reception of Lucretius)
- Philosophical
Materialism (An atheist's speech on materialism, including
Lucretius)
- Lucretius
(c.95-55 BC) : Library of Congress Citations (Somewhat helpful for
bibliography)
- Lucretius
Underrated Epicurean Philosopher (An atheist's take on Lucretius;
elementary
and pedantic)
- Some (partly random) Bibliography
for Lucretius for LATN 263 at UNC-CH
Basic pages on the hexameter (keyed to Vergil but applicable) and on
"practical rules for scansion of hexameter" (coming) - 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 Lucretius (Outlne of the whole DRN by Prof. Donald
H.
Mills)
- 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)
- Classics
Ireland 1999 (A page dedicated to plagues in antiquity, with
discussion
of pestis in DRN; author argues that L. based his account on Thuc.)
Encyclopedia-type
articles
- Lucretius
[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Contains info on the life,
work,
and philosophy of L., with a short bibliography)
- Lucretius
[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Fairly detailed description
and discussion of Lucretius' life and philosophy)
- Lucretius
on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (A very basic online encyclopedia article
on Lucretius)
- Lucretius
Carus (Lukrez) (A very brief biography of the poet in German.)
- Titus
Lucretius Carus (A paragraph on Lucretius from the Woodberry Forest
School; very basic)
- Lucretius
(Description from Middlebury of Lucretius and his philosophy)
- Lucretius
(Short discussion of Lucretius in Hungarian)
Reception
of Lucretius by later authors, thinkers
- 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, plus everything you
could
ever want to know about the Chandler family and their Toyota MR2s)
- BROOKE
ON TENNYSON'S LUCRETIUS (Two paragraphs celebrating Tennyson's
interpretation
of Lucretius; goes with link to the poem above.)
- Chapter
Five: Other Times, Other Cultures, Other Selves (A website for the
study of Victorianism. Brief mention of Tennyson's reaction to
Lucretius)
- Chapter
Seven: The Late Phase (From the same website above; a chapter from
James Kincaid's book on Tennyson--brief discussion of Tennyson's
reception
of Lucretius)
- ChemTeam:
De Rerum Natura (17th century English essay on DRN 1 in verse!)
- Anti-Lucretius
(Prof. Glei) (Pictures of and information about Cardinal Melchior
de
Polignac and his Anti-Lucretius poem, in German)
- ANTI-LUCRéCE
- 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. Some
Lucretius)
- Alexander
Pope (1688-1744) The Dunciad: Book IV (Online text of The Dunciad
with
notes, in which Pope mentions Lucretius)
Other
Neat Stuff
The
Atomic Swerve band (MP3 songs) (Link 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 new book by an ecological writer
using
Epicurus to promote a simple life free from consumerism and with
limited
technology
New historicist Stephen
Greenblatt interview, with a few words (2/3 of the way down) on the
"huge resurgence of studies in Epicureanism and in Lucretius"
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
Big Picture (Fairly extensive timeline of Antiquity)
- The
Arms of the Company (A link to a British association for engineers,
whose motto is certare ingenio)
- Lily
Ross Taylor Biography (also contains her complete bibliography,
1952
article on Lucr. and the Roman theater)
- 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
- A
Bit of Lucretius in Gornal (Lucretius cited for a beer festival in
the Lower Midlands, UK!)
- Dr
James Warren - home page (Link to the home page of the Cambridge
prof.
who gave above course; interesting general links)
- Leeds
International Latin Seminar (Information on the LILS' 2 yr.
Lucretius
Project)
- Malaspina.com
- Lucretius (ca. 95-55 B.C.) (Various links to buy Lucretius)
- 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!)
Stuff
we haven't categorized yet, weird stuff, stuff that doesn't work
- Lucretius
is a molecular dynamics simulation program (Enough said)
- Lucretius
(one sentence on Lucretius etc.)
- Pythagoras
of Samos - A Resource Document (site with information about
Pythagoreanism;
a little strange)
- Lucretius
quotation (Brief quotation in English from the DRN.)
- Lucretius
(Contains Lucretius' dates, a quotation from Mark Van Doren, and a
brief
quotation from DRN in translation)
- Li-Lu:
Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations (Some quotes from
Lucretius
and other prominent "L's")
- Barry
Sanders? (odd, and insulting, comparison of running back Barry
Sanders
to "some Lucretian god")
- Dennis McKay has helped organize and categorize this material.