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Lucretius: de Rerum Natura Book 3
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Lucretius: de Rerum Natura Book 3 Paperback - 1977

by Lucretius; E. J. Kenney (Editor)

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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 once rational, dignified and liberating. Professor Kenney's commentary is the first to give proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry; it can be read with profit by all students of Latin from senior school level upwards.

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O TENEBRIS tantis tam clarum extollere lumen qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda uitae, to sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc ficta pedum pono pressis uestigia signis, non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem quod te imitari aueo: quid enim contendat hirundo cycnis, aut quidnam tremulis facere artubus haedi consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi uis?

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  • Title Lucretius: de Rerum Natura Book 3
  • Author Lucretius; E. J. Kenney (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date May 27, 1977
  • ISBN 9780521291774 / 0521291771
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.35 x 4.88 x 0.66 in (18.67 x 12.40 x 1.68 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 880.8

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