480 pages
English language
Published 2015 by Penguin Books, Limited.
Nature of Things
Coralie Bickford-Smith, Titus Lucretius Carus, A. E. Stallings, Richard Jenkyns: Nature of Things (2015, Penguin Books, Limited)
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- 978-0-14-139690-3
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This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.
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- Classical philology