Villa Council Presents: Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas

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The Villa Council Presents: Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas
A lecture presented by Stephen Greenblatt
How does one take in concepts that are initially alien or offensive? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt considers why and how Lucretius' great poem "On the Nature of Things"--the core ideas of which were utterly repugnant to the Christian culture of Renaissance Europe--eluded the period's tight web of censorship and repression, playing a crucial role in an age in love with beauty.

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