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LUCRETIUS, - De rerum natura libri sex. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by W.E. Leonard and S.B. Smith.
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| Schrijver: | LUCRETIUS, |
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| Titel: | De rerum natura libri sex. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by W.E. Leonard and S.B. Smith. |
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| Uitgever: | University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1942. 886p. Original red cloth. Spine gilt titled. Cover scratched. Corners a bit bumped. Library marks and labels to first pages. Occasionally some light, erasable pencil underlinings. (Rare). |
| Bijzonderheid: | ‘The new edition of Lucretius is ‘the result of newly life-long interests of two scholars which some fifteen years ago became merged in a cooperative enterprise’. Leonard has contributed the General Introduction. Smith is responsible for the... |
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€ 125,00
€ 4,50
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| Meer info | and punctuation is interpretation. (…) Another improvement is that Smith does not share ‘the queer dislike of capitals in what we call ‘personifications’ (…). So far as I know, he is the first Lucretian editor to print Natura time and again with a capital, likewise Voluptas, Magna Mater, Letum, Aetas, Mors, Fortuna, etc. (…) Nothing is more difficult than to give a fair review of a commentary. The merits of this part of Smith’s work are obvious. It is short in words and rich in information. The translations of words are sound and often excellent (…). The book of Leonard and Smith will be for a long time to come the standard Lucretius, at least in this country.’ (PAUL FRIEDLÄNDER in The American Journal of Philology (1945, pp.318-324). |
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