This book offers a selection of key passages from the poem: in addition it gives students insight into its artistic inventiveness, provides a cultural and historical frame of reference, and offers access to the Epicurean philosophy that ...

This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which begins by putting a strong case against what it has recently become fashionable to call 'intelligent design', and ends with an account of human evolution and the development of society in ...

The volume unites the three aspects - poetry, philosophy, and science - found in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

A Reading of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura offers a comprehensive commentary on this great work of Roman poetry and philosophy.

Verse translation of Lucretius's epic Latin poem explaining the universe, within the framework of Epicurean philosophy.

This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age.

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