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Zeiner Empedocles R : EDIVIVUS Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius Myrto Garani New York London First published 2007 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2007 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopy- ing and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garani, Myrto, 1975– Poetry and analogy in Empedocles and Lucretius / by Myrto Garani. p. cm. — (Studies in classics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-98849-7 1. Empedocles. 2. Lucretius Carus, Titus. 3. Greek poetry—History and criticism. I. Title. PA3968.E6G37 2008 182'.5—dc22 2007031855 ISBN 0-203-92928-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-98849-7 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-92928-4 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-98849-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-92928-5 (ebk) Contents Abbreviations vii Permissions ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter One Personification 29 Chapter Two Similes 95 Chapter Three Metaphors 151 Epilogue 221 Notes 223 List of Translations 269 Bibliography 271 Index Locorum 293 General Index 315 v Abbreviations Arr.2 G. Arrighetti, Epicuro Opere, 2nd ed., (Turin 1973). CIAG H. Diels (ed.), Commentaria in Aristotelem Greaca (Berlin, 1882–1909). DK H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker6 (3 vols.; Berlin, 1951–52). Dox. Graec. Doxographi Graeci, ed. H. Diels (Berlin, 1879; cited from 1965 reprint). Ep. Hdt. Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus. Ep. Men. Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus. Ep. Pyth. Epicurus, Letter to Pythocles. FHS&G W. W. Fortenbaugh, P. M. Huby, R. W. Sharples, and D. Gutas (eds.), Theophrastus of Eresus (Leiden, 1992). LSJ H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon9 rev. H. S. Jones, with supplement (Oxford, 1968) [rev. supplement by P. G. W. Glare (1996)] M&P A. Martin and O. Primavesi (eds.), L’Empédocle de Strasbourg (P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665–1666) (Berlin and Strasbourg, 1998) vii viii Abbreviations OCD Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed., eds. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (Oxford, 1996). OLD Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. P. G. W. Clare (Oxford, 1982) PHerc. Papyri Herculanenses SVF H. von Arnim, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta (4 vols., Leipzig, 1903–24). TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Leipzig, 1887–) Us. H. Usener, Epicurea (Leipzig, 1887) ΚΔ Epicurus, Principal Sayings. Fragments of the Presocratic philosophers are numbered according to DK. When Empedocles is identified by context, I am referring to his testimonia (labelled A) or extant fragments (labelled B) without naming him. There is a full list of the translations used in the end of the book. Abbreviations for journal titles generally follow the system used in L’Année Philologique; lists of standard abbreviations for classical authors and works can be found in LSJ and the OLD. Permissions The translations of Empedocles’ testimonia are reprinted by permission of University of Toronto Press from B. Inwood, The poem of Empedocles: a text and translation with an introduction, revised edition (Phoenix. Supplementary volume; 39), Copyright © 2001 by University of Toronto Press Incorporated. Text and translation of Empedocles’ extant fragments are reprinted by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd from Wright, M. R. (© 1981, 1995): Empedocles, the extant fragments. The translation of Lucretius’ De rerum natura is reprinted by permis- sion of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from LUCRETIUS, Loeb Classical Library ® Volume 181, translated by W. H. Rouse, 1924, revised by Martin F. Smith, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Uni- versity Press, Copyright © 1975, 1982, 1992 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College] The translation of Diogenes Laertius is reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from DIOGENES LAERTIUS: LIVES OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS–VOLUME II, Loeb Classical Library® Volume 185, translated by R. D. Hicks, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1925 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. ix