Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Book 3 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) - Hardcover
The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius is a sustained and impassioned protest against religious superstition and irrationality. The poem takes the form of a detailed exposition of Epicurean physical theory - an extreme materialism designed to remove and discredit popular fears of the gods, death and an afterlife. Book III is generally accepted to be the finest in the whole poem; Lucretius argues there that the soul is as mortal as the body and shows that human response to the fact of mortality and death can be at once rational, dignified and liberating. Professor Kenney's commentary is the first to give proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry; it can be read with profit by all students of Latin from senior school level upwards.
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The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius is a sustained and impassioned protest against religious superstition and irrationality. The poem takes the form of a detailed exposition of Epicurean physical theory - an extreme materialism designed to remove and discredit popular fears of the gods, death and an afterlife.
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David R. Slavitt is the author of more than eighty books of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and drama. His "Propertius in Love "is available from University of California Press.
E. J. Kenney is Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Cambridge.
E. J. Kenney is Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Cambridge.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0521081424
- ISBN 13 9780521081429
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
- EditorKenney E. J.
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