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Philodemus and Poetry : Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace.
Designed to offer a critical survey of trends and developments in recent scholarship on Philodemus of Gadara and Hellenistic literary theory, the essays in this volume examine the papyrus texts of Philodemus' treatises on poetry and the related subjects of rhetoric and music.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry; 2. Epicurean Poetics; 3. Epicurean Poetics: Response and Dialogue; 4. The Epicurean Philosopher as Hellenistic Poet; 5. The Alleged Impossibility of Philosophical Poetry; 6. Reconstructing Philodemus' On Poems; 7. Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an Evasion; 8. Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism in Poetry; 9. Philodemus on the Technicity of Rhetoric; 10. How to Read Poetry about Gods; 11. The Impossibility of Metathesis: Philodemus and Lucretius on Form and Content in Poetry.
- 12. Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horace's SatiresAppendix 1. Philodemus, On Poems Book 5; Appendix 2. Philodemus on Poetics, Music, and Rhetoric: A Classified Bibliography; General Bibliography; Contributors; Index of Passages Discussed; Index of Greek and Latin Words; General Index.