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De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation by Lucretius
Category: Gift
This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. "De Rerum Natura" is Lucretius' majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over the course of six books. This sumptuous account ...Show more
Lucretius - The Way Things Are - The de Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus by Lucretius Staff; Rolfe Humphries (Translator); B. Feldman (Introduction by)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
"... captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' --The Classical Review
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Wh ...Show more
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The acclaimed new translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death ...Show more
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