The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things
Author: Lucretius
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2007-07-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141915374

Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness. He bases this on the atomic theory expounded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, and continues with an examination of sensation, sex, cosmology, meteorology, and geology, all of these subjects made more attractive by the poetry with which he illustrates them.

Lucretius on the Nature of Things

Lucretius on the Nature of Things
Author: Lucretius
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1434429571

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