A conference on the reception of Lucretius in the European Enlightenment is to be held in Edinburgh on Sept. 3-4. Here is a list of the papers:
- David Butterfield (Cambridge): ‘Lucretius’ De rerum natura and classical scholarship in the eighteenth century’
- Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale): ‘Pierre Bayle’s Lucretius’
- James Harris (St. Andrews): ‘Of shipwrecks and sympathy: Lucretius, Hume, and the pleasures of tragedy’
- Ann Thomson (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St. Denis): ‘Lucretius and la Mettrie’
- Tim Hochstrasser (London School of Economics and Political Science): ‘The role of Lucretius in Diderot’s later political thought’
- Alan Charles Kors (University of Pennsylvania): ‘Lucretius and d’Holbach’
- Piet H. Schrijvers (Leiden): ‘Lucretius in the Dutch Enlightenment’
- Andrew Laird (Warwick): ‘Lucretius and Spanish Jesuit culture after the Bourbon Reforms: Diego José Abad and Rafael Landívar in Italy’
- Wolfgang Pross (Berne): ‘»Atheorum antistes et oraculum«: Enemies of Lucretius in the European Enlightenment’
- Avi Lifshitz (University College London): ‘Lucretius and German debates over the origins of language, c. 1750’
- Mario Marino (Jena): ‘Herder and Lucretius’
- Ernst A. Schmidt (Tübingen): ‘Wieland and Lucretius’
For more information, http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/conferences/lucretius09/index.html
[Thanks to RogueClassicism]
