ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE

Lucretius (Translated By R.E. Latham)

ISBN 10: 0140446109 / ISBN 13: 9780140446104

Editore: Penguin Classics, London, 1994

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**Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Light spine crease, otherwise without flaw. 5 X 8" 275 pages (1994) This translation was first published in 1911, revised with an introduction and notes by John Godwin. On the Nature of the Universe is widely regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicureans discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of willful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c50 BC) steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms, the discovery of fire, the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.

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• Titolo: ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
• Editore: Penguin Classics, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140446109
• ISBN 13: 9780140446104
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Very Good
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A seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy

With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.

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Titus Lucretius Carus (who died c.50 BC) was an Epicurean poet writing in the middle years of the first century BC. His six-book Latin hexameter poem De rerum natura survives virtually intact, although it is disputed whether he lived to put the finishing touches to it. As well as being a pioneering figure in the history of philosophical poetry, Lucretius has come to be our primary source of information on Epicurean physics, the official topic of his poem.