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9780140446104: On The Nature Of The Universe (Penguin Classics S.)
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ISBN 10: 0140446109 ISBN 13: 9780140446104
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 1994

Sinopsis

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.

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Titus Lucretius Carus (who died c.50 BC) was an Epicurean poet writing in the middle years of the first century BC. His six-book Latin hexameter poem De rerum natura survives 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.

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Editorial
Penguin Classics
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0140446109
ISBN 13 
9780140446104
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
Editor
Latham Ronald
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