{"id":1757,"date":"2018-10-15T19:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T00:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2018-10-15T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T00:52:18","slug":"why-memmius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Why Memmius?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;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 title is &#8220;Lucretius&#8217; Dedication: Why Memmius?&#8221;, and the PDF will be found <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/VOP\/Lucretius-Memmius.pdf \">here<\/a>. For better or worse, I have not removed any of the characteristics of an oral presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[47,295],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-lucretius","tag-memmius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}