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Lucretius and the Language of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Barnaby Taylor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things'), written in the middle of the first century BC, made a fundamental and lasting contributio
On the Nature of Things
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Titus Lucretius Carus
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, De Rerum Natura — On the Nature of Things — theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly ph
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs

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Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It
De Rerum Natura
Language: la
Pages: 916
Authors: William Ellery Leonard
Categories: Didactic poetry, Latin
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-08 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this mon
Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things
Language: en
Pages: 165
Authors: Richard Allen Shoaf
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-16 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare’s works. I