The Nature of Things - Softcover

Lucretius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393090949 ISBN 13: 9780393090949

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 1977

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Aeneid

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Titus Lucretius Carus--Lucretius--was a Roman poet and philosopher (ca. 99 BC - ca. 55 BC). His 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.

Frank O. Copley was a preeminent translator of Latin. His publications include Catallus: The Complete Poetry; Plautus: Menaechmi, Mostellaria, Rudens; Vergil: The Aeneid and Lucretius's On the Nature of Things.

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Based on the tenets of Epicurean philosophy, The Nature of Things sets forth a world view anticipating our own. All that exists is composed of atoms that united to form matter and dissipate with time. Even the soul is made up of atoms; however, there is no place in the Epicurean universe for the Roman gods, whose existence Lucretius refutes. Lucretius considers the fear of death to be the source of most human ills, and seeks to dispel it by demonstrating that the soul, like the body, dissolves painlessly into its constituent atoms after death. There is no afterlife, therefore no cause for fear.

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393090949
• ISBN 13: 9780393090949
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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