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De Rerum Natura
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009
De Rerum Natura written by Titus Lucretius Carus and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Collections categories.
For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance. This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which begins by putting a strong case against what it has recently become fashionable to call 'intelligent design', and ends with an account of human evolution and the development of society in which the limitations of technological progress form a strong and occasionally explicit subtext. Along the way, the poet touches on many themes which may strike a chord with the twenty-first century reader: the fragility of our ecosystem, the corruption of political life, the futility of consumerism and the desirability of limiting our acquisitive instincts are all highly topical issues for us, as for the poem's original audience. Book V also offers a fascinating introduction to the world-view of the upper-class Roman of the first century BC. This edition (which complements existing Aris and Phillips commentaries on books 3, 4 and 6) will help to make Lucretius' urgent and impassioned argument, and something of his remarkable poetic style, accessible to a wider audience, including those with little or no knowledge of Latin. Both the translation and commentary aim to explain the scientific argument of the book as clearly as possible; and to convey at least some impression of the poetic texture of Lucretius' Latin.
On The Nature Of Things
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
On The Nature Of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and he died in the year 55. Writing in the waning days of the Roman Republic - as Rome's politics grew individualistic and treacherous, its high-life wanton, its piety introspective and morbid - Lucretius sets forth a rational and materialistic view of the world which offers a retreat into a quiet community of wisdom and friendship. Even to modern readers, the sweep of Lucretius's observations is remarkable. A careful observer of nature, he writes with an innocent curiosity into how things are put together - from the oceans, lands, and stars to a mound of poppy seeds, from the "applause" of a rooster's wings to the human mind and soul. Yet Lucretius is no romantic. Nature is what it is - fascinating, purposeless, beautiful, deadly. Once we understand this, we free ourselves of superstitious fears, becoming as human and as godlike as we can be. The poem, then, is about the universe and how human beings ought to live in it. Epicurean physics and morality converge.
De Rerum Natura
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1627
De Rerum Natura written by Titus Lucretius Carus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1627 with categories.
De Rerum Natura Of The Nature Of Things
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Author : Lucretius Carus, Titus
language : en
Publisher: Los Angeles : Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the Ward Ritchie Press
Release Date : 1957
De Rerum Natura Of The Nature Of Things written by Lucretius Carus, Titus and has been published by Los Angeles : Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the Ward Ritchie Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Didactic poetry, Latin categories.
Nature Of Things
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11-25
Nature Of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with Philosophy categories.
'De Rerum Natura' ('On the Nature of Things') is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance," and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.
On The Nature Of Things
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Author : T. Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
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De Rerum Natura The Nature Of Things
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Author : Lucretius
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2008-08-06
De Rerum Natura The Nature Of Things written by Lucretius and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
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. This sumptuous account of a secular cosmos argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas. Renowned author, translator, and poet David R. Slavitt has captured Lucretius's elegance as well as his philosophical profundity in this highly readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought.
De Rerum Natura
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Author : Titus (c.99-c.55 BC) Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
De Rerum Natura written by Titus (c.99-c.55 BC) Lucretius Carus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with categories.
Text in Latin; introduction and notes in English.
Lucretius The Way Things Are
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1968-01-22
Lucretius The Way Things Are written by Titus Lucretius Carus and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-01-22 with History categories.
Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.
De Rerum Natura Liber Quintus
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Author : Titus Lucretius Carus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
De Rerum Natura Liber Quintus written by Titus Lucretius Carus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.