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Cover 1 Atomism in the Aeneid 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of Abbreviations 10 Introduction: Lucretian Allusion, Virgilian Allegory 12 I.1 Global Approaches to Virgil’s Lucretian Intertexts 14 I.1.1 Genre, Style, and Tone 15 I.1.2 The “Epicurean Aeneid” 17 I.1.3 Polemical Allusion 19 I.1.4 Polemical Allusion: A Synthesis 21 I.2 Philosophical Allegory in the Aeneid 22 I.2.1 Why Epicureanism? 23 I.2.2 Static versus Dynamic Allegory 25 1. Characterizations of Epicurean Atomism 29 1.1 Early Atomism: Democritean Origins and Epicurean Contributions 33 1.2 Aristotle 41 1.3 Stoics and Skeptics: The Ciceronian Evidence 47 1.3.1 Stoic Critiques of Atomism in Cicero 50 1.3.2 Academic Critiques of Atomism in Cicero 53 1.4 Lucretian Atomism 59 1.5 Conclusion 61 2. Trojans under the Influence of Atomism (Epic Winners) 63 2.1 The Atomic Opening (Nature sine Numine) 64 2.2 Atomic Disasters 80 2.3 Atomic Indecision 86 2.4 Conclusion 97 3. Non-Trojans under the Influence of Atomism (Epic Losers) 98 3.1 Atomistic Dido 99 3.2 Italians and the Atomic Battlefield 103 3.3 Turnus and the Phantom Aeneas 108 3.4 Atomistic Mezentius 117 3.5 Conclusion 121 4. Turnus and the End of the Epicurean

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Matthew M. Gorey;

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