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Chapter 1 - Critical Responses to the Most Difficult Textual Problem in Lucretius
from Part I - The Text
- By David Butterfield
Edited by Donncha O'Rourke, University of Edinburgh
Book:

Approaches to Lucretius

Published online:

25 June 2020

Print publication:

16 July 2020, pp 19-40
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This opening chapter surveys the broad range of critical responses to the difficulties presented by DRN 1.44–9 (on the immortality and tranquility of the gods) from Renaissance accounts to the most recent discussions of the problem. The status of the passage as a locus nondum sanatus and its high-profile appearance in the poem’s proem render these verses the most difficult passage for the Lucretian editor. The present discussion weighs complex theories about the verses’ purpose against text-critical theories about the work’s composition and transmission.