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St Jerome tells us that Lucretius was born in the year 94 BCE; that a love potion rendered him insane; that he wrote his poem in random moments of sanity; that Cicero edited (or maybe proofread) the manuscript he left behind when he committed suicide at the age of forty-four.
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- Title Lucretius in the Modern World
- Author W. R. Johnson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
- Date 2013-04-01
- ISBN 9780715628829 / 0715628828
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.37 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 0.94 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Dewey Decimal Code 187
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Duckworth. Very Good. 2000. Paperback. 0715628828 . Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Minor creasing to wraps. ; Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things", one of the glories of Latin literature, provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century, despite its vital contributions to modern thought and civilisation, it has been largely neglected by common readers and scientists alike. This book offers an extensive description of the poem, with special emphasis on its cheerful version of materialism and on its attempt to devise an ethical system that suits such a universe. It surveys major relevant texts form the eighteenth and ninetheenth centuries…
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