Roman poet Lucretius (95-55 BC) is often accused of introducing inappropriate rhetoric into his explication of Epicurean physics as an epic poem. Markovic (classics, Temple U., Philadelphia)
disagrees. Taking a broader definition of rhetoric, he argues that the poet in fact intensified rhetorical elements already present in the work of Epicurus, systematically returning them to
their ancestral forms found in the language of epic poetry. Among his topics are Epicurean education and traditional education, the organizational principles of the poem, arguments from analogy
and comparison, and the poem's rhetoric of explanation. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
