Lucretius in the Modern World

by W.R. Johnson

Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things", one of the glories of Latin literature, provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715628828
• ISBN13: 9780715628829
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"