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Lucretius

Lucretius

Lucretius
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Lucretius Papeback - - 2nd Edition

by Lucretius; E. J. Kenney (Editor)

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Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. 272 2nd Edition . Papeback. New.
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  • Title Lucretius
  • Author Lucretius; E. J. Kenney (Editor)
  • Binding Papeback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition New
  • Pages 268
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press CUP , Cambridge
  • Publication date pp. 272 2nd Edition
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 698183038
  • ISBN 9780521173896 / 0521173892
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Philosophy, Ancient
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014007606
  • Dewey Decimal Code 187
  • Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it had done before its birth. Only if this fact is accepted can men rid themselves of irrational fears and achieve the state of ataraxia, freedom from mental disturbance, on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based. To present this case Lucretius deploys the full range of poetic and rhetorical registers, soberly prohibitive, artfully decorative or passionately emotive as best suits his argument, reinforcing it with vivid and compelling imagery. This new edition has been completely revised, with a considerably enlarged Commentary and a new supplementary introduction taking account of the great amount of new scholarship of the last forty years.

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