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    • May 13, 2021 at 9:40 AM
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    Nate has revised his "Back of the Book" graphic to substitute a quote from Lucretius for the one formerly listed by Laertius. It turns out that that previous clip, while absolutely accurate in substance, was more of a combination of comments from Laertius and Lucian. Since we didn't want two quotes from Lucian, and Lucretius deserves inclusion anyway, please keep THIS version for the future and sharing on social media. Thanks Nate!

    Also, I wanted to post this as a forum thread so people could find the graphic more easily. There will be discussion of the graphic under the comments to the graphic itself, but sometimes those aren't as easy to find when searching as a forum post.

    The primary home of the graphic is here: Back of Book - Epicurus as a Modern Best-Selling Author

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    Lucretius' Appearance - Research into What He Looked Like

    For the time being I'll start this thread with this. I know we can find information about the Lucretius ring in the introduction to one of Munro's editions to his Lucretius. And I clipped that photo of the ring somewhere, so that exists on the internet too, but I don't know where the original is located. The sketches in the second picture are, on the left, from the sketchbook of Herculaneum discoveries (need link) and the one on the right is from the Munro book.



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    My favorite quote on Lucretius comes from Ovid in his Amores.

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    Cicero, in a letter to his brother;

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    The poems of Lucretius are as you write: they exhibit many flashes of genius, and yet show great mastership.

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    For anyone who is not completely submerged in the spirit of our age, who feels instead like a spectator as the world goes past him, especially, from time to time, vis-à-vis the intellectual attitudes of his contemporaries — on him will Lucretius's poem work its magic

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    And–why not! Lucy Hutchinson;

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    Wow thank you Joshua!

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    Isn't there a famous Voltaire quote as well.....?

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