The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius by

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

Cambridge Companions to Literature

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Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it b...

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