Bücher von Monica R. (Trinity College Gale

This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.

This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition. It is a comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes an interesting reading of the poem as a whole.