Lucretius: De Rerum Natura - Lucretius
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KORTE INHOUD
The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius is a sustained and impassioned protest against religious superstition and irrationality. The poem takes the form of a detailed exposition of Epicurean physical theory - an extreme materialism designed to remove and discredit popular fears of the gods, death and an afterlife. Book III is generally accepted to be the finest in the whole poem; Lucretius argues there that the soul is as mortal as the body and shows that human response to the fact of mortality and death can be at...
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1971 Uitgever: University Press Cambridge 264 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0521081424 ISBN-13: 9780521081429Koop dit boek tweedehands
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University Press, Cambridge, 1971. VIII,255p. Original grey cloth with dust wrappers. Spine gilt stamped. Name stamp J.H. Waszink on free endpaper. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. ‘This work can be recommended on several counts. Kenney approach...