De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation (Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation (Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature) Book

De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things) Presents a readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought. This title offers an elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology. It argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas. Full descriptionRead More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • Foyles

    Presents a readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought. This title offers an elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and ...

  • 0520255933
  • 9780520255937
  • L Lucretius
  • 5 August 2008
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
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