Treasures of Lucretius


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The Literary World


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Lucretius: The Way Things Are


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Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.







Eclogae Lucretianae


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Selections from De Rerum Natura


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-- A brief biography of Lucretius -- History of materialist theory of the universe -- Detailed discussion of Lucretian originality and style -- Section on meter -- Bibliography The text includes 53 passages (1291 lines total) spanning the entire







Lucretius on the Nature of Things


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Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 BCE) was a Roman poet and philosopher whose only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things