Brooke Holmes is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton UniversityW. H. Shearin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami

Dynamic Reading is an exciting experiment in perspective. Eleven essays by a range of distinguished scholars come at the Epicurean inheritance from radically different angles, from an ancient Roman who starved himself to death to Mark Rothko, from a 'whore's doctrine of pleasure' to the philosophy of Giles Deleuze. The volume bears witness to the haunting ambiguity of Epicureanism and to its continuing vitality.

• Introduction, Brooke Holmes and W. H. Shearin ; 1. Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean Death, W. H. Shearin ; 2. Epicurus's Mistresses: Pleasure, Authority, and Gender in the Reception of the Kuriai Doxai in the Second Sophistic, Richard Fletcher ; 3. Reading for Pleasure: Disaster and Digression in the First Renaissance Commentary on Lucretius, Gerard Passannante ; 4. Discourse ex nihilo: Epicurus and Lucretius in Sixteenth-century England, Adam Rzepka ; 5. Engendering Modernity: Epicurean Women from Lucretius to Rousseau, Natania Meeker ; 6. Oscillate and Reflect: La Mettrie, Materialist Physiology, and the Revival of the Epicurean Canonic, James Steintrager ; 7. Sensual Idealism: The Spirit of Epicurus and the Politics of Finitude in Kant and Holderlin, Anthony Adler ; 8. The Sublime, Today?, Glenn Most ; 9. From Heresy to Nature: Leo Strauss's History of Modern Epicureanism, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft ; 10. Epicurean Presences in Foucault's The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Alain Gigandet ; 11. Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Simulacrum of Naturalism, Brooke Holmes ; Bibliography ; Index