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LUCRETIUS: DE RERUM NATURA Book III
by Lucretius; E. J. Kenney (Ed. )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0521081424
- ISBN 13
- 9780521081429
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0521081424 . Very light to book else fine. DJ has minor shelfwear with 1 small tear and light edgewear. DJ is price-clipped. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 272 pages; 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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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25909
- Title
- LUCRETIUS: DE RERUM NATURA Book III
- Author
- Lucretius; E. J. Kenney (Ed. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0521081424
- ISBN 13
- 9780521081429
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- 0521081424, Lucretius, Cosmology, Philosophers And Philosophy, Latin Literature, Classical Greek & Roman
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