Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on de Rerum Natura, Book Five, Lines 772-1104 by Gordon Campbell

Oxford Classical Monographs

Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on de Rerum Natura, Book Five, Lines 772-1104

Gordon Campbell

385 pages hardcover

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Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory (first century BC) is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. It is a mechanistic theory that does away with the need for any divine...

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