Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry -- 2. Epicurean Poetics -- 3. Epicurean Poetics: Response and Dialogue -- 4. The Epicurean Philosopher as Hellenistic Poet -- 5. The Alleged Impossibility of Philosophical Poetry -- 6. Reconstructing Philodemus' On Poems -- 7. Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an Evasion -- 8. Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism in Poetry -- 9. Philodemus on the Technicity of Rhetoric -- 10. How to Read Poetry about Gods -- 11. The Impossibility of Metathesis: Philodemus and Lucretius on Form and Content in Poetry -- 12. Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horace's Satires -- Appendix 1. Philodemus, On Poems Book 5 -- Appendix 2. Philodemus on Poetics, Music, and Rhetoric: A Classified Bibliography -- General Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Passages Discussed -- Greek -- A -- C -- D -- E -- H -- L -- M -- N -- P -- S -- T -- X -- Latin -- A -- C -- F -- H -- J -- L -- M -- P -- Q -- S -- V -- Index of Greek and Latin Words -- Greek Words -- Latin Words -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.