Book Launch event for Dr. T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

Check out these photos from Dr. T. H. M. Gellar-Goad’s Book Launch event for Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire held at Bookmarks Bookstore earlier this month!  This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Roman epic poet Lucretius’ engagement with satire. Author T. H. M. Gellar-Goad argues that what has often been understood as an artfully persuasive exposition of Epicurean philosophy designed to convert the uninitiated is actually a mimesis of the narrator’s attempt to effect such a conversion on his internal narrative audience—a performance for the true audience of the poem, whose members take pleasure from uncovering the literary games and the intertextual engagement that the performance entails.