The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius by Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie

365 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it b...

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