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The Nature of Things: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks

Autor Lucretius Introducere de Richard Jenkyns Traducere de A. E. Stallings
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 feb 2015
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Lucretius' poemOn the Nature of Thingscombines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness. He bases this on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, and continues with an examination of sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology, all of these subjects made more attractive by the poetry with which he illustrates them.
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ISBN-13: 9780141396903
ISBN-10: 0141396903
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 113 x 174 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Pocket Hardbacks

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Titus Lucretius Carus (who diedc.50 BC) was an Epicurean poet writing in the middle years of the first century BC. His six-book Latin hexameter poemDe rerum naturasurvives virtually intact, although it is disputed whether he lived to put the finishing touches to it. As well as being a pioneering figure in the history of philosophical poetry, Lucretius has come to be our primary source of information on Epicurean physics, the official topic of his poem.

A. E. Stallings was born in 1968. She grew up in Decatur, GA, and was educated at the University of Georgia and Oxford University in classics. Her poetry has appeared inThe Best American Poetry(1994 and 2000) and has received numerous awards, including a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Prize Anthology XXII), the 1997 Eunice Tietjens Prize fromPoetryand the third annual James Dickey Prize fromFive Points.

Richard Jenkyns is Professor of the Classical Tradition, University of Oxford, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and author of a number of books includingDignity and Decadence: Some Classical Aspects of Victorian Art and ArchitectureandThe Victorians and Ancient Greece.

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One of the most extraordinary classical translations of recent times
A.E. Stallings's brilliant recent translation

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A poem that demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness.