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The Nature of Things

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The acclaimed translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve

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On the Nature of the Universe

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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...

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The Nature of Things

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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...

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On the Nature of Things

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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...

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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...

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Lucretius: The Way Things Are: The de Rerum Nat... 025320125X Book Cover

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" . . . [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' --The Classical Review

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On the Nature of Things [Latin]

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Atomic atheism in verse.

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded...

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On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura

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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,...

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On the Nature of Things: De Rerum Natura

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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,...

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De Rerum Natura: The Latin Text of Lucretius 0299003647 Book Cover

De Rerum Natura: The Latin Text of Lucretius

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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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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...

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On the Nature of Things

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"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."

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De la Naturaleza de las cosas: De Rerum Natura [Spanish] B08XZ8GN1J Book Cover

De la Naturaleza de las cosas: De Rerum Natura [Spanish]

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de Rerum Natura, the Nature of Things: A Poetic... 0520255933 Book Cover

de Rerum Natura, the Nature of Things: A Poetic...

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This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius's majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over the course of six books...

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On the Nature of the Universe

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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...

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Lucretius: The Way Things are: The De Rerum Nat... B000O7AS60 Book Cover

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On the Nature of Things: de Rerum Natura

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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...

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de Rerum Natura

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