A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius' account of why death does not matter.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary and updated overview of Lucretius as philosopher and as poet, with special attention to how these two aspects interact.

Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 BCE) was a Roman poet and philosopher whose only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things

This book offers a study of Lucretius' linguistic innovation and creativity.

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory.