CLASSICAL CONSTRUCTIONS: PAPERS IN MEMORY OF DON FOWLER, CLASSICIST AND EPICUREAN.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper which reproduces Piero di Cosimo's 'The Forest Fire' (c. 1505). A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the fine unclipped, unpriced dustwrapper.

Don Fowler was Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford until his early death in 1999. He was an inspiring teacher and colleague, who did fundamental work in establishing a variety of new ways of reading for students of Classical literature. [...] This memorial volume contains a full list of his publications and a previously unpublished paper. There are also new papers by a group of Don's friends, leading classicists at universities in England, Ireland, Italy, and the USA: Phillip Mitsis, Gordon Campbell, Alessandro Schiesaro, Michèle Lowrie, Llewelyn Morgan, Philip Hardie, Joseph Farrell, Stephen Hinds, Ben Tipping, Matthew Leigh, Deborah H. Roberts, Andrew Laird, Stephen Harrison. All are concerned to tell stories about the past from a critically informed position. Three of the papers deal with Lucretius and Epicureanism; others with Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Silius, Lucan, and Petrarch. Reception is a major concern of the authors, both in the modern world and in antiquity; so is rhetoric and the interface between philosophy and literature. Though these are papers of ground-breaking scholarship, the style is deliberately informal, as a memorial of the honorand, and they contain personal reminiscences and reflections on death. (from the jacket).