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On the Nature of the Universe

On the Nature of the Universe Paperback - 1994

by Lucretius

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Penguin Publishing Group, 1994. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title On the Nature of the Universe
  • Author Lucretius
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0140446109I3N00
  • ISBN 9780140446104 / 0140446109
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.82 x 5.07 x 0.8 in (19.86 x 12.88 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1370
  • Library of Congress subjects Didactic poetry, Latin - Translations into, Philosophy, Ancient - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95100021
  • Dewey Decimal Code 187

First line

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling constellations of the sky all nature teems with life, both the sea that buoys up our ships and the earth that yields our food.

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About the author

Titus Lucretius Carus (who died c.50 BC) was an Epicurean poet writing in the middle years of the first century BC. His six-book Latin hexameter poem De rerum natura survives virtually intact, although it is disputed whether he lived to put the finishing touches to it. As well as being a pioneering figure in the history of philosophical poetry, Lucretius has come to be our primary source of information on Epicurean physics, the official topic of his poem.