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

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

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For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. Martin Ferguson Smith is Professor of Classics Emeritus, Univ. of Durham, United Kingdom.

This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy.

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 ...

De Rerum Natura is Lucretius's majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds over the course of six books.