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The Nature of Things
The acclaimed translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve "A plague . . . tests us in unique ways. . . . Only if you can face the invisible bullets all around us, and still keep calm, remain rational, and somehow find...
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things (Loeb Classi...
The Nature of Things
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's...
On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura
Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and died in the year 55. Little is known of his life, although two tantalizing bits of gossip were passed on by St. Jerome: that he was poisoned by a madness-inducing aphrodisiac given him by his wife,...
On the Nature of the Universe
On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura
On the Nature of the Universe
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of...
On the Nature of Things: De Rerum Natura
De rerum natura, On the Nature of Things, is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books,...
The Nature of Things
This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern...
On the Nature of Things
"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant." On The Nature of Things...
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On the Nature of Things [Latin]
Atomic atheism in verse.
On the Nature of Things (Translated by William ...
Lucretius: The Way Things Are: The de Rerum Nat...
" . . . [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' --The Classical Review
De Rerum Natura: The Latin Text of Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 B. C.) is known primarily as the Roman author of the long didactic poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In it, he set out to explicate the universe, embracing and refuting ideas of the great Greek philosophers.
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On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things
This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern...
Lucretius
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things: (Forgotten ...
On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura
Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and died in the year 55. Little is known of his life, although two tantalizing bits of gossip were passed on by St. Jerome: that he was poisoned by a madness-inducing aphrodisiac given him by his wife, and...
de Rerum Natura, the Nature of Things: A Poetic...
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De la nature des choses [French]
De rerum natura (De la nature des choses), plus souvent appel De natura rerum, est un grand po me en langue latine du po te philosophe latin Lucr ce, qui v cut au 1er si cle avant notre re. Compos de six livres totalisant 7 400 hexam tres dactyliques, m tre classique utilis...
On the Nature of Things
de Rerum Natura
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De Rerum Natura: Latin Text [Latin]
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