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Afterlives of the Garden
The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as well as poetic texts by both minor and major writers in the Latin literary canon, including the anonymous poems, Ciris and Aetna, and an elegy from the Tibullan corpus by the female poet, Sulpicia. Major figures include the Augustan poets, Vergil and Horace, and the late antique Christian theologian, Augustine. The method of analysis employed in the essays is uniformly interdisciplinary and reveals the depth of the engagement of each ancient author with major preoccupations of Epicurean thought, such as the balanced pursuit of erotic pleasure in the context of human flourishing and the role of the gods in relation to human existence. The ensemble of nuanced interpretations testifies to the immense vitality of the Epicurean philosophical tradition throughout Greco-Roman antiquity and thereby provides a welcome and substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of reception studies.
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosopher of the day, and Lucretius, foremost among the representatives and supporters of Epicureanism at the time. Throughout the volume, the impact of such disparate reception on the part of these leading authors is explored in a way that illuminates the popularity as well as the controversy attached to the followers of Epicurus in Italy, ranging from ethical and political concerns to the understanding of scientific and celestial phenomena. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics
Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a ‘biographical’, more than ‘philological’, perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their ‘Ciceros’. From Cicero’s lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, wh...
Compassion's Edge
Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.
From Pliny the Younger to Symmachus
This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from its origins, the book as a whole focuses on its uses in the pagan literary texts from the Trajanic (late first century CE) to the Theodosian age (late fourth century CE). The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which the different meanings usually attributed to humanitas by dictionaries (roughly 'human nature', 'education and culture', 'philanthropy') are much more nuanced and in continuous relation with one another, and how the use of humanitas by some authors often performs clear rhetorical and/or ideological strategies. This book is ther...
Du bon usage de la douceur en politique dans l’œuvre de Tacite
« Qu’ils me haïssent, pourvu qu’ils me craignent ! » : est-ce là le seul héritage que les Romains nous aient laissé en matière de gouvernance ? Un dirigeant ne peut-il donc s’imposer que par la crainte et la terreur, en laissant libre cours à la cruauté ? L’œuvre de Tacite, ce grand historien de l’Empire, invite à penser qu’au contraire les Romains ont accordé une grande place à la douceur en politique, considérant qu’elle pouvait être utile en bien des circonstances : le dialogue permanent entre cet auteur et ceux qui l’ont précédé, Cicéron en particulier, révèle même une continuité de la République au Principat. Mais par douceur faut-il n’entendre ...
›Amicus Lucretius‹
Many scholars have studied the dialogue between the Epicurean tradition and Pierre Gassendi. However, no one so far has ever attempted to conduct a full analysis of the latter’s specific reception of Lucretius. The book attempts to show that Gassendi was the first to discuss almost the whole De rerum natura, as part of an ambitious project. He sought to provide a Christianized version of Lucretius’ theory or to develop an atomistic worldview “freed” from the many dangerous errors that were often imputed to atomism (impiety, debauchery, and irrationality). In particular, Gassendi developed a dialectical strategy that led him to recover a providential atomism, an Epicurean psychology t...
L' eau et le Plaisant
Quelle importance les Romains accordaient-ils à la présence de l'eau, et jusqu'à quel point celle-ci jouait-elle un rôle dans leur vie quotidienne ? C'est à ces questions que répond cet ouvrage, en s'appuyant sur l'exemple offert par Pline le Jeune, qui écrivit sous le règne de Trajan, une période particulièrement brillante pour la civilisation romaine. Haut fonctionnaire, il fut chargé de résoudre bien des problèmes liés à la gestion de l'eau au cours de sa carrière, en même temps qu'il se délassait en jouissant de la présence de l'eau, aussi bien dans la nature que dans ses splendides piscines et salles de bain. En analysant en profondeur les passages de son oeuvre où l...
L' eau et le Mouvant
Cette étude analyse les différents usages de l'eau et ses représentations chez Tacite, que ce soit dans l'appréciation des différents types de paysages, la menée d'opérations militaires sur mers et sur rivières, la mise en opposition des Romains et des Barbares, ou son rôle dans la religion romaine sous forme de présages par exemple.
