Tag Archives: Lucretius

Why Memmius?

Posted on Monday: October 15, 2018 by Michael Hendry

While I’m uploading old papers, I thought I should include a lecture on Lucretius I gave at the Leeds Latin Seminar in 2000. This is, after all, the traditional date of the death of Lucretius (and birth of Vergil). The … Continue reading →

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Hume on the Roman Poets

Posted on Monday: September 21, 2009 by Michael Hendry

Ovid and Lucretius are almost as licentious in their style as Lord Rochester, though the former were fine gentlemen and delicate writers, and the latter, from the corruptions of that court in which he lived, seems to have thrown off … Continue reading →

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