Philodemus and Poetry Poetic Theory and

This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of his library at Herculaneum, and the editing and gradual publication of the material, has reawakened interest in the philosophical and historical importance of his work. Philodemus presents us with a poetic theory of interest in itself, and several of his treatises provide us with instances of how poetry was seen as providing moral paradigms and guidance. These essays explore the many facets of Philodemus's work and the relationship between them, offering a critical survey of recent trends and developments in scholarship on Philodemus in particular and Hellenistic literary theory in general.

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry	p. 3
Epicurean Poetics	p. 15
Epicurean Poetics: Response and Dialogue	p. 35
The Epicurean Philosopher as Hellenistic Poet	p. 42
The Alleged Impossibility of Philosophical Poetry	p. 58
Reconstructing Philodemus' on Poems	p. 69
Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an Evasion	p. 97
Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism in Poetry	p. 148
Philodemus on the Technicity of Rhetoric	p. 178
How to Read Poetry About Gods	p. 189
The Impossibility of Metathesis: Philodemus and Lucretius on Form and Content in Poetry	p. 210
Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horace's Satires	p. 233
Philodemus, on Poems Book 5	p. 255
Philodemus on Poetics, Usic, and Rhetoric: a Classified Bibliography	p. 270
General Bibliography	p. 282
Contributors	p. 289
Index of Passages Discussed	p. 291
Index of Greek and Latin Words	p. 298
General Index	p. 302
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Philodemus and Poetry Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace

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