"This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature ... Based on the tenets of Epicurean philosophy, On the Nature of ...

`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her ...

This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius's majestic ...

Originally published in 1937, this book contains an English translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura by R. C. Trevelyan. The text is accompanied by critical notes and ...

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

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Elegant, insightful and startlingly modern, the philosophy of Lucretius deeply influenced the course of European thought; here, he provides one of the first accounts of atomic ...