On The Nature Of The Universe (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Lucretius

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

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140446109
ISBN 13 
9780140446104
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
336
Herausgeber
Latham Ronald
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