No Spectre, No Sceptre: The Agon of Materialist Thought in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: No Spectre, No Sceptre: The Agon of Materialist Thought in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Stephen M. Buhler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Postremo cur sancta deum delubra suasque
 discutit infesto praeclaras fulmine sedes,
 et bene facta deum frangit simulacra suisque
 demit imaginibus violento volnere honorem?

(Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.417-20: Lastly, why does he shatter holy shrines of the gods, and even his own illustrious habitations, with the fatal thunderbolt, why smash finely-wrought images of the gods and rob his own statues of their grandeur with a violent wound?)¹

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