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Title: ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
By: Titus Lucretius Carus, R. E. Latham (Trans), John Godwin
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0140446109
ISBN 13: 9780140446104
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 26 May, 1994
Series: Penguin Classics S.
Pages: 336
Translated from: Latin
Description: This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader.
Synopsis: This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader. 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
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