de Rerum Natura, the Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation - Paperback
by Lucretius
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lucretius, David R. Slavitt (Translator)Publish date:2008-08-06Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520255937ISBN-10:520255933UPC:9780520255937Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, AncientBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.26 x 5.52 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCPTFHASK8
de Rerum Natura, the Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation
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 unfolds over the course of six books. This sumptuous account of a secular cosmos argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520255937ISBN-10:520255933UPC:9780520255937Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, AncientBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.26 x 5.52 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCPTFHASK8
David R. Slavitt is the author of more than eighty books of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and drama. His Propertius in Love is available from University of California Press.
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