[PDF.49zg] On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura

On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura

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 | #638241 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  1995-06-01 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.79 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| As a layman who has enjoyed many pleasurable hours of leisure reading philosophy|By Ken|As a layman who has enjoyed many pleasurable hours of leisure reading philosophy, science, religion, and history, I had read of Lucretius’ poem many times. Finally, I decided to read it and see for myself. Others more capable than me have commented on it in detail, so I will be bri| ||"Esolen has focused on the poet, translating the Latin hexameters into accented pentameter in order to capture the dynamics, rhythms, and syntax of the original. The results are both satisfying and readable. Esolen includes an elegant introduction on Lucretiu

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 that his great poem On the Nature of Things was posthumously edited by Cicero. For the latter assertion, writes Anthony Esolen in his introduction to the present volume, there is little...

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