De Rerum Natura - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook De Rerum Natura write by William Ellery Leonard. This book was released on 2008-08-08. De Rerum Natura available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this monumental work. It features an introduction to Lucretius's life and work by William Ellery Leonard, an introduction to and commentary on the poem by Stanley Barney Smith, the complete Latin text with detailed annotations, and an index of ancient sources. --University of Wisconsin Press.
Introduction to Lucretius
Introduction to Lucretius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Lucretius write by A. P. Sinker. This book was released on 2013-08-22. Introduction to Lucretius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an overview of Lucretius' philosophical poem 'De rerum natura' intended to clarify the poem's overarching themes to a first-time reader. It also gives a brief running commentary on the individual books as well as more detailed notes on selected passages, which are reproduced in the original Latin.
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucretius on Creation and Evolution write by Gordon Lindsay Campbell. This book was released on 2003. Lucretius on Creation and Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 theory of zoogony and the origin of species that does away with the need for any divine aidor design in the process, and accordingly it has been seen as a forerunner of Darwin's theory of evolution. This commentary locates Lucretius in both the ancient and modern contexts, and treats Lucretius' ideas as very much alive rather than as historical concepts. The recent revival of creationismmakes this study particularly relevant to contemporary debate, and indeed, many of the central questions posed by creationists are those Lucretius attempts to answer.
A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura
A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura write by Don Fowler. This book was released on 2002. A Commentary on Lucretius De Rerum Natura available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'In Lucretius on Atomic Motion Don Fowler produces a commentary of Lucretius like no other. His commentary achieves the status of a meta-commentary... what makes this commentary claim our attention is the range of texts, both poetic and philosophical, ancient and modern, that Fowler brings to bear in revealing the deep background --and the later fortune - of Lucretius' poem.' -Diskin Clay, Times Literary SupplementThis is the first commentary on Lucretius' theory of atomic motion, one of the most difficult and technical parts of De rerum natura. The late Don Fowler sets new standards for Lucretian studies in his awesome command both of the ancient literary, philological, and philosophical background to this Latin Epicurean poem, and of the relevant modern scholarship.
On the Nature of Things
On the Nature of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Nature of Things write by Titus Lucretius Carus. This book was released on 1995-06. On the Nature of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Titus 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. Even 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. Once 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.
