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Lucretius: de Rerum Natura Book 3

Lucretius: de Rerum Natura Book 3

Lucretius Carus, Titus
Lucretius
Kenney, Edwin J.

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Series: de Rerum Natura, Book 3

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ISBN10: 0521291771
ISBN13: 9780521291774
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 27 1977
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.66 Width: 4.88 Depth: 7.35
Language: English
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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