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Language: la
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Lucretius' poem, for which Epicurean philosophy provided the inspiration, attempts to explain the nature of the universe and its processes with the object of fr
Language: en
Pages: 550
Pages: 550
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Language: la
Pages: 916
Pages: 916
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-08 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation
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
Language: en
Pages: 406
Pages: 406
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs
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