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256 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521542142
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius. By showing how he worked from the literary model set by the Greek poet Empedocles but under the philosophical i...
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256 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521542142
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things), the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius. By showing how he worked from the literary model set by the Greek poet Empedocles but under the philosophical i...