31 results for '"LUCRETIUS"'

Includes The Text Of 'de Rerum Natura' I. Wilhelm Ott. Includes The Latin Text Of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Book 1. Includes Indexes.

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...

The acclaimed translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve“A plague . . . tests us in unique ways. . . . Only if you can face the invisible bullets all around us,...

Reissued to accompany Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: the epic poem that changed the course of human thought forever. This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring...

"Mr. Humphries' admirable and exciting translation makes it easy to grasp the shape and the magnitude of Lucretius' conception. It is a formidable task to put 7,500 Latin hexameter lines into English...

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...

Reprint of the Edinburgh Univ. Press edition of 1969. The original is cited in BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It gives an anti-teleological mechanistic...

Lucrèce entièrement annoté de la main de Montaigne! Les remarques et commentaires, la plupart en français, jusqu'aux traces de sa plume traînante dans les marges, indiquent les réactions de Montaigne...

Atomic atheism in verse.Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99–ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura...

Building on recent advances in the reconstruction of the charred papyri of Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 B.C.) excavated from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, this volume presents eleven...

"The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of...

With great style, wit, and joy, Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman celebrate their favorite dessert.In Cake, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman bring us...

Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the...

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this...