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050 00 $aPA6483.E5$bE83 1995
082 00 $a187$220
100 1 $aLucretius Carus, Titus.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033010
240 10 $aDe rerum natura.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85300938
245 10 $aDe rerum natura =$bOn the nature of things /$cLucretius ; edited and translated by Anthony M. Esolen.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9508
300 $aix, 296 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aTitus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and he died in the year 55. Writing in the waning days of the Roman Republic - as Rome's politics grew individualistic and treacherous, its high-life wanton, its piety introspective and morbid - Lucretius sets forth a rational and materialistic view of the world which offers a retreat into a quiet community of wisdom and friendship.
520 8 $aEven to modern readers, the sweep of Lucretius's observations is remarkable. A careful observer of nature, he writes with an innocent curiosity into how things are put together - from the oceans, lands, and stars to a mound of poppy seeds, from the "applause" of a rooster's wings to the human mind and soul. Yet Lucretius is no romantic. Nature is what it is - fascinating, purposeless, beautiful, deadly.
520 8 $aOnce we understand this, we free ourselves of superstitious fears, becoming as human and as godlike as we can be. The poem, then, is about the universe and how human beings ought to live in it. Epicurean physics and morality converge.
650 0 $aDidactic poetry, Latin$vTranslations into English.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102254
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Ancient$vPoetry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106080
700 1 $aEsolen, Anthony M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94091851
740 0 $aOn the nature of things.
852 00 $bglx$hPA6483.E5$iE83 1995