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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - Contents: Abbreviations -- 1. Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry, Diskin Clay -- 2. Epicurean Poetics, Elizabeth Asmis -- 3. Epicurean Poetics: Response and Dialogue, David Sider -- 4. The Epicurean Philosopher as Hellenistic Poet, David Sider -- 5. The Alleged Impossibility of Philosophical Poetry, Michael Wigodsky -- 6. Reconstructing Philodemus� On Poems, Richard Janko -- 7. Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an Evasion, James Porter -- 8. Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism in Poetry, Elizabeth Asmis -- 9. Philodemus on the Technicity of Rhetoric, David Blank -- 10. How to Read Poetry about Gods, Dirk Obbink -- 11. The Impossibility of Metathesis: Philodemus and Lucretius on Form and Content in Poetry, David Armstrong -- 12. Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horace�s Satires, Steven Oberhelman and David Armstrong -- Appendix 1. Philodemus, On Poems Book 5., Translated by David Armstrong from the edition of Cecilia Mangoni -- Appendix 2. Philodemus on Poetics, Music, and Rhetoric: A Classified Bibliography. - Dirk Obbink is a papyrologist and specialist in ancient literary criticism. Since 1986 he has taught Greek and Latin and ancient Mediterranean cultures to graduates and undergraduates at Barnard College and Columbia University. He is coeditor with Christopher Faraone of Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (1991) and editor of Philodemus On Piety (1994), both from Oxford. ISBN 9780195088151