Claudia Schindler, Ph.D. (2000), University of Hamburg, is Professor of Classical Philology/Latin at that university. She has published monographs and articles on Latin and neo-Latin epic and didactic poetry, late antique panegyric as well as on the history of classical scholarship.

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"This is a well-balanced and extremely well-documented book. Among its most clear merits is the fact that it shows that the objective of Lucretian poetry is not Epicurean physics, but to find a way to eradicate the fear of death and the gods. Lucretius is a brief but comprehensive book, condensing the most important academic discussions about a fundamental poet." Andrés Vázquez, BMCR 2024.11.10.