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On the Nature of the Universe Titus Lucretius Carus

On the Nature of the Universe By Titus Lucretius Carus

On the Nature of the Universe by Titus Lucretius Carus

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This is regarded as 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.

On the Nature of the Universe Summary

On the Nature of the Universe by Titus Lucretius Carus

This is regarded as 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.

About Titus Lucretius Carus

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.

Table of Contents

Reviser's Preface; Introduction; Bibliography. ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE: Synopsis; BOOK ONE: Matter and Space; BOOK TWO: Movements and Shapes of Atoms; BOOK THREE: Life and Mind; BOOK FOUR: Sensation and Sex; BOOK FIVE: Cosmology and Sociology; BOOK SIX: Meteorology and Geology; Notes. Appendix A: The Prelude to the Poem; Appendix B: Memmius; Appendix C: Smallest Parts; Appendix D: The Text; Appendix E: The Ending of the Poem.

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GOR001449502
9780140446104
0140446109
On the Nature of the Universe by Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Lucretius Carus
Penguin Classics S.
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1994-05-26
336
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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