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SCHRIJVERS, P.H., Lucrèce et les sciences de la vie. Brill, Leiden (...), 1999. IX,231p. Original greey gilt stamped cloth with dust wrps. Series: Mnemosyne, Supplementum 186. Nice copy. Like new. 'The volume contains eleven papers from 1974-1997, presenting a coherent and rich study of Lucretius' theories of human development (...) and applied psychology (...). Its audience will be scholarly perforce: it presupposes not merely the absence of malign ' Anglo-Saxon' monoglottism (p.170) - ten essays are in French, one in German - but a facility with the rather testing Greek of the scholia on Epicurus. (There are no translations of Latin or Greek, even when the readings are controversial or corrupt. Those who pass these hurdles will be infuriated by its inept system of bibliographical references, amused by the odd error in the transcription of English (...), but richly rewarded by its profound learning and suggestive conclusions. Whether of not one accepts these conclusions, Schrijvers's method in these papers - 'confronting' Lucretius' iedeas with the full array of ancient thought on the relevant issues in order to reveal his intellectual background (p.VII)- is consistently illuminating. € 95.00 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780521570329