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320 pages • first pub -55 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780198150978
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 05 March 1998
Description
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scient...
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320 pages • first pub -55 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780198150978
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 05 March 1998
Description
This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scient...