Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*CHAPTER ONE. Lucretius's Adequacy to the Fear of Death: Logic, Poetry, and Emotion, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO. Atoms, Bodies, and Individuals: Death in Epicurus and Lucretius, pg. 26*CHAPTER THREE. The Wind-Scattered Soul, pg. 46*CHAPTER FOUR. Nothingness and Eternity: The Fear of the Infinite, pg. 74*CHAPTER FIVE. The World's Body and the Human Body: Walls, Boundaries, and Mortality, pg. 94*CHAPTER SIX. The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 1, pg. 115*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 2, pg. 144*CHAPTER EIGHT. Generals, Poets, and Philosophers: Death in the Perspective of Time and Eternity, pg. 171*CHAPTER NINE. War, Death, and Civilization: The End of Book 5, pg. 187*CHAPTER TEN. The Plague Reconsidered: Progress, Poet, and Philosopher, pg. 228*CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Fear of Death and the Good Life, pg. 238*Selected Bibliography, pg. 247*Index of Passages, pg. 253*General Index, pg. 273