On the Nature of the Universe

by Lucretius, Ronald Melville, Don Fowler (Introduction), Peta Fowler (Introduction)

Overview

This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198150978
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/05/1998
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.81(d)
Lexile:	1370L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

On the Nature of the UniverseReviser's Preface
Introduction
Bibliography
ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
Synopsis
Book One: Matter and SpaceBook Two: Movements and Shapes of Atoms
Book Three: Life and Mind
Book Four: Sensation and Sex
Book Five: Cosmology and Sociology
Book Six: Meteorology and Geology
Notes

Appendix A: The Prelude to the Poem
Appendix B: Memmius
Appendix C: Smallest Parts
Appendix D: The Text
Appendix E: The Ending of the Poem