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At De rerum natura 2.1-8, Lucretius polemically alludes to Sappho fr. 16 (V.). Lucretius uses the polemical allusion against Sappho fr. 16 (V.) in order to develop an impressively artful opening to his second book, while advocating, intertextually, for ataraxia as kalliston.
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This page is a summary of: Ataraxia Vanquishes Eros, Mnemosyne, October 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10031.
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