Lucretius 6

A text dominated by storms, earthquakes, floods, eruptions and pestilence, the last book of Lucretius’ De rerum natura dares readers to interpret the most terrifying natural phenomena through the lens of Epicurean doctrine. This is the ultimate test for the poem’s ambition to unshackle its followers from ignorance, and provide an open-ended understanding of the universe which would put them on a par with gods. For modern scholarship, too, this taut and complex book poses challenging questions about narrative structure, completeness, agency and sublimity.

Participants

• Yelena Baraz - Princeton University
• Emanuele Berti - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Francesco Busti - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Nicolò Campodonico - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Vincenzo Casapulla - Scuola Normale Superiore
• René De Nicolay - Princeton University
• Katherine Dennis - Princeton University
• Marcus Deufert - Universität Leipzig
• Mirko Donninelli - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Francesca Econimo - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Joseph Farrell - University of Pennsylvania
• Denis Feeney - Princeton University
• Andrew Feldherr - Princeton University
• Leonardo Galli - Università di Bologna
• Manuel Galzerano - Università Roma Tre
• Myrto Garani - University of Athens
• Francesco Grotto - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Philip Hardie - University of Cambridge
• Sarah Johnson - Princeton University
• Adalberto Magnavacca - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Federico Maviglia - Yale University
• Damien Nelis - Université de Genève
• Eva Noller - Universität Basel
• Donncha O’rourke - University of Edinburgh
• Marta Perilli - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Giuseppe Pezzini - Oxford University
• Gianpiero Rosati - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Alessandro Schiesaro - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Francesco Staderini - Milano
• Barnaby Taylor - Oxford University

Organization

• Andrew Feldherr - Princeton University
• Gianpiero Rosati - Scuola Normale Superiore
• Alessandro Schiesaro - Scuola Normale Superiore

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